He's full of contradictions. But that's the best kind of character to write about. You don't want to write about—or watch on screen—someone who is saintly and good and doing all the right things. He wants to rescue his family. But he objects to everything that is happening in the United States. He objects to materialism, to shoddy goods, to the fact that foreign countries are involved in our economy, to the government, to organized religion, to television. His kids can't watch television; they are home-schooled. He's the independent spirit you see in a lot of Americans, the preppers, the survivalists, for example, but taken to an extreme. I also see him very much as a Yankee inventor. I've known people like him. Like who? Living on the Edge: Paul Theroux - print version". www.peacecorpswriters.org . Retrieved 2022-11-22. a b Interview with Eleanor Wachtel, CBC Radio, 30th International Festival of Authors, Toronto, October 25, 2009. Canby, Vincent (November 26, 1986). " The Mosquito Coast review". The New York Times . Retrieved August 27, 2010.

In a 2009 interview, he stated that he now has "the disposition of a hobbit," and had become more optimistic than in his youth. He further commented that he "need[s] happiness to write well." [11] Kempley, Rita (December 19, 1986). " The Mosquito Coast review". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012 . Retrieved January 7, 2011.He was skeptical of the government being able to help. He was a pious man, but anti-clerical, and thought priests had it easy—they had housekeepers. He found television vulgar, the newspapers vulgar, Why not? Popular culture is offensive. Allie has that side of him that believes, "We can do better." But Allie goes too far, makes mistakes. My father was a very benign and admirable figure. Sort of the good side of Allie Fox. What's the fatal flaw in Allie Fox's dreams of starting over? Paul Theroux on the porch of his house on Oahu in 2015. "The hardest thing to write about on this earth," he once said, "is luxury, pleasure, happiness. Misery is really where it’s at. Because it’s more like real life." MCCURRY6 Apple's promotional language says that each AppleTV+ original is "meant to entertain, connect, and inspire cultural conversations." What do you hope The Mosquito Coast will inspire? Migration (2014-11-09). "Paul Theroux's turning point in Singapore | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com . Retrieved 2022-11-08.

a b D'Alessandro, Anthony (June 2, 2021). " 'The Mosquito Coast' Lands Second Season On Apple TV+". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021 . Retrieved June 2, 2021. The Mosquito Coast". Writers Guild of America West. Archived from the original on April 28, 2021 . Retrieved October 16, 2022. Nelson, Dean (12 August 2018). "V.S Naipaul and Paul Theroux in emotional Jaipur Literature Festival reunion"– via www.telegraph.co.uk.

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Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town". Foreign Affairs. 2009-01-28. ISSN 0015-7120 . Retrieved 2021-02-19. My introduction to the fiction of Paul Theroux is The Mosquito Coast and readers in search of the Great American Novel would be hard pressed to find a more thrilling definition of the term. Not that there haven't been novels of high literary merit set in mundane locations, but the Great American Novel takes its characters on a great journey--physically, spiritually, often both--and says something definitive about the U.S.A. in the era in which it is set. Published in 1982, this novel achieves that, introducing an ingenious but self-destructive man whose obsessions drag his family off the map, where he's determined to keep gambling on his grandiose ideas until he has nothing left to lose. Paterson Joseph as "Calaca" (season 1), the gatekeeper to Casa Roja, a sanctuary for fugitives fleeing from the U.S. government. Polski refers to Fat Boy as a "contraption" and seeing no application for it on his farm, is largely unimpressed. Father gives his working model to the migrant workers who live on the farm and who the inventor refers to with both admiration and derision as "the savages." What Allie Fox most likes to do other than take things apart is rant: free trade, education, pollution, crime, energy, nutrition, entertainment (the Foxes do not own a TV), etc. A trip to a hardware store in Northampton is enough to push him past the boiling point. He is far from optimistic about the direction the country is headed. When you're writing a novel, you're always fantasizing. When we lived in Singapore between 1968 and 1971, I thought of taking taking my family to live somewhere exotic for a number of years. My two sons at the time were the same age as Charlie Fox is in the book. I thought about Bali. It was [a short distance from Singapore] and just a few villages then. Ubud was a scattering of huts and one hotel that had been a temple or part of a royal palace. The owner of the hotel was a prince. I thought, "Let's just go!" But my then wife said, "No, I'm not interested."