The Mosquito Coast

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| Paperback | 9780140060898

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Travelling in circles

Paul Theroux is the author of The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express. He is better-known for these than for his nine novels. The novels are extraordinarily different from each other, and haven’t given a distinct image of Theroux as a ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

Moby-Dad

Many novelists quickly establish an authorial identity that remains recognizable, through good books and bad, from the beginning to the culmination of the writer’s career. The authorial “ego” visible in The Pickwick Papers is still visible, despite a ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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'Barking mad' is the only possible way of describing the main character, Allie, who takes his family into the forests of South America to escape the madness and corruption that, in his view, has made the US unlivable.
The return to origin par excellence.
The disappointing note is ... (continue)

'Barking mad' is the only possible way of describing the main character, Allie, who takes his family into the forests of South America to escape the madness and corruption that, in his view, has made the US unlivable.
The return to origin par excellence.
The disappointing note is the rest of his family. Although crazy, extreme in his beliefs, at least Allie is real, while the rest of his family may well have been extra luggage. Not until the very end do they start to rebel to his madness, when it is too late.

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