{"product_id":"dont-stop-the-carnival-a-novel","title":"Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel","description":"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.\n\nIt'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.\n\nIt'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.)\n\nIt'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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0316955124\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0316955124.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Wouk, Herman\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47711752650929,"sku":"RDV.0316955124.A","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0316955124-0.jpg?v=1784164130","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/dont-stop-the-carnival-a-novel","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}