Don't Stop the Carnival -- Herman Wouk

<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><br> 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. <p/>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.) <p/>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Herman Wouk<br><b>Publisher:</b> Back Bay Books<br><b>Published:</b> 05/15/1992<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316955126