Don't Stop the Carnival Contributor(s): Wouk, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316955124 ISBN-13: 9780316955126 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1992 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Jewish |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 99195685 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.85 lbs) 416 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |