Don't Stop the Carnival

The compulsively and clock-racingly readable novel (New York Times Book Review) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical.
It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise.

It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster -- of a sort peculiar to the tropics -- ensue.)

It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving.

Author: Herman Wouk
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 05/15/1992
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780316955126
ISBN10: 0316955124
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Jewish