Books
March, 1982
Armchair travelers and timid tourists can rely on Paul Theroux to transport them to countries they'll never visit. He's taken readers to Malaysia, to darkest Africa, to South America and on the Orient Express. Now, in his new novel, The Mosquito Coast (Houghton Mifflin), Theroux travels to Honduras for his story about Allie Fox, a brilliant but crazy inventor of ice machines and other peculiarities. Allie, convinced that the demise of the U.S. is imminent, hauls his wife and four children to a w...
