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Don't Stop the Carnival

By: Herman Wouk
Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
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Summary

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 best-selling 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.

©1965, 1993, 1999 Herman Wouk (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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Excellent book reflecting small island, or even little back Water village life, anywhere in the world.

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Dull story, shallow characters, extremely homophonic in places and terrible accents/pronunciation of British characters. Does not evoke the best of the Caribbean.

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