Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel

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 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.

• An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
• A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
• The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
• Wind from the Carolinas
• There's a Yacht More to Life: Loving, Working and Playing in Paradise
• The Winds of War
• Youngblood Hawke
• War and Remembrance
• Hurricanes & Hangovers: and other tall tales and loose lies from the coconut telegraph
• Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel