Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk (1992, Trade Paperback) Good

Description: Item specificsConditionGood: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.Read moreISBN9780316955126Book TitleDon't Stop the Carnival : a NovelPublisherLittle Brown & CompanyItem Length8.2 inPublication Year1992FormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishIllustratorYesItem Height1.2 inAuthorHerman WoukFeaturesReprintGenreFictionTopicLiterary, Humorous / General, JewishItem Weight12.8 OzItem Width5.5 inNumber of Pages416 PagesAbout this productProduct IdentifiersPublisherLittle Brown & CompanyISBN-100316955124ISBN-139780316955126eBay Product ID (ePID)100533Product Key FeaturesBook TitleDon't Stop the Carnival : a NovelNumber of Pages416 PagesLanguageEnglishTopicLiterary, Humorous / General, JewishPublication Year1992IllustratorYesFeaturesReprintGenreFictionAuthorHerman WoukFormatTrade PaperbackDimensionsItem Height1.2 inItem Weight12.8 OzItem Length8.2 inItem Width5.5 inAdditional Product FeaturesIntended AudienceTradeLCCN99-195685Reviews"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 ReviewDewey Edition21CLASSIFICATION_METADATA{"IsNonfiction":["No"],"IsOther":["No"],"IsAdult":["No"],"MuzeFormatDesc":["Trade Paperback"],"IsChildren":["No"],"Genre":["FICTION"],"Topic":["Humorous / General","Jewish","Literary"],"IsTextBook":["Yes"],"IsFiction":["Yes"]}Dewey Decimal813/.54Edition DescriptionReprintSynopsisThe "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 NumberPS3545.O98D66 1999Copyright Date1992ebay_catalog_id4

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