Book Bearings
Don't Stop the Carnival
- 384 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1965
- 41 editions
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1 About this book
Don't Stop the Carnival is a 1965 novel by American writer Herman Wouk. It is a satirical comedy about escaping from New York and a middle-age crisis to an idyllic island in the Caribbean, a heaven that quickly turns into a hell for the main character. The novel was turned into a short-lived musical and later an album by Jimmy Buffett (1997).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Caribbean Area in fiction
- Humor
- Caribbean area
- Americans in fiction
- Hotelkeepers
- Americans
2 About Herman Wouk
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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