Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel

Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel

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<div><b>The "compulsively and clock-racingly readable" novel (<i>New York Times Book Review</i>) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical. </b></div><div><br></div> 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.<br><br>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.)<br><br>It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as <i>The Caine Mutiny</i> and <i>War and Remembrance</i> 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.