✍ Scribed by Theroux, Paul
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Paperback, 384 pages
Published 1981
Mariner Books (2006)
Anthony Burgess- Best in English (1939-1983)
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1983)
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