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| Book: | The Mosquito Coast: A Novel |
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| Author: | Paul Theroux |
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| Publisher: | Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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Abominating the cops, crooks, scavengers and funny-bunnies of the twentieth century, he abandons civilization and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, quixotic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness and terror.
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The Mosquito Coast
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Witness star (Harrison Ford) for a tricky adaptation of Paul Theroux’s novel of a modern man who takes his family into the jungle. The results are mixed, but the film is galvanized by Ford’s atypical performance as inventor/madman Allie Fox. Paul Schrader’s script sets up Allie as a man who follows his idea: that America is dying and the real “four-in-the-morning courage” is found in returning to the essence of life, here the jungles of a fictional Central American country (it was shot in…
