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Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel - Paperback By Wouk, Herman - GOOD

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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Brand
Unbranded
MPN
Does not apply
ISBN
0316955124
Book Title
Don't Stop the Carnival : a Novel
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Item Length
8.2 in
Publication Year
1992
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Herman Wouk
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Literary, Jewish, Humorous / General
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316955124
ISBN-13
9780316955126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
100533

Product Key Features

Book Title
Don't Stop the Carnival : a Novel
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Jewish, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1992
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Herman Wouk
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-195685
Reviews
"Wouk's coral cuts, his sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies...His only pirate is a boozy, busted corporate raider named Lester...His hero is a middle-aged New York Jew with a heart condition. The result is not romance but farce laced with tears."-- Time, "Finely evocative of its sun, sea, and sand...with a comic line that moves as fast as a Marx Brothers movie."-- New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3545.O98D66 1999

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    • Fins up

      This book is laugh out loud funny. I have read it several times and I have purchased the book in tandem with Jimmy Buffett‘s matching CD don’t stop the carnival probably five times as gifts. After reading the book, several years ago a small group of us decided to go to Saint Thomas specially for Carnival. Fins up! The book and CD is a can’t miss gift idea. Enjoy!!

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: waddlebooks

    • Descriptive writing but blase story

      Herman Wouk's "Don't Stop the Carnival" features delightfully descriptive writing. Problem is, the characters are grating, annoying, selfish. There needs to be at least one redeeming character to carry a novel. None are, neither Paperman, Atlas, nor Iris. The peripheral characters consist primarily of cardboard ethnic stereotypes. It's a shame that Wouk's stellar writing can't get this clunker off the ground.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

    • Lived it, Loved it

      Having lived in St. T. as we called it, I have lived "The Carnival" so to speak. The story line is just as remembered.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: discover-books

    • Slow to start

      Slow to start, gets better

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: guskerdu

    • Brilliant

      Brilliantly written. A forgotten classic.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books