{"product_id":"dont-stop-the-carnival-paperback","title":"Don't Stop the Carnival - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Wouk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe compulsively and clock-racingly readable novel (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt'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.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as \u003ci\u003eThe Caine Mutiny\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWar and Remembrance\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685319544895,"sku":"9780316955126","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e003a79879595dded4e9e4f149c3d1d1.webp?v=1764970606","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/dont-stop-the-carnival-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}