Don't Stop the Carnival

A Novel
by Herman Wouk
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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...
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Published By Back Bay Books

Format Paperback

Category

Number Of Pages 416

Publication Date 05/15/1992

ISBN 9780316955126

Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.25 inches


"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

"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

"If there are hit musicals in fiction, this is one."—Newsweek

 
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