Don't Stop The Carnival - Softcover

Wouk, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316955124 ISBN 13: 9780316955126

Publisher: Little, Brown US, 1992

Synopsis

In the Caribbean, Hawaii, Capri, in fact wherever people seek in vain to escape from their true selves, they wryly laugh at and quote "Don't Stop the Carnival." This is Herman Wouk's authentic picture of hotel-keeper Norman Paperman, discovering a new illicit love with a fading film star, amid zany mishaps and disasters recognizable to anyone who has lived on an island in the sun. Wouk and his family did just that for seven years. "My wife and I almost went out of our minds, " he has written, "but much of the time we laughed like hell, and so survived. I trust that what is mainly preserved in this tale is the laughter."

About this title

Review:

"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

Book Description:

How far would you go to realise your dreams?

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0316955124
• ISBN 13: 9780316955126
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416