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The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux

Part of the Penguin Reader , Level 4 (1700 words) series

64 pages · 2000

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Allie Fox hates America and everything about the twentieth century. He takes his wife and two sons to the Honduran jungle to live a better, simpler life but when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before ...

Tragedy and farce in the jungle. Harrison Ford starred in the smash-hit film.

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