Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk

Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk is a 395-page cloth-bound hardcover published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965, stated first edition, Book Club Edition. The dust jacket has shelf wear and chips along the top spine and edges.  The book is clean. Book Summary Herman Wouk's new novel, perhaps the most entertaining he has written, is an ironic comedy of tropical adventures, misadventures, and love affairs. A middle-aged New Yorker named Norman Paperman, a successful and well-known Broadway publicity agent, suddenly finds his glittering Manhattan life empty, boring, unbearable.  He chucks it all to buy a hotel on the island of Amerigo, in the Caribbean Sea.  To anybody who has ever dreamed of such an escape to an island paradise--and who has not?--this book will come as a revelation, as well as a hilarious and beguiling tale; for it is written by a master novelist who lives in the West Indies, and it is utterly authentic. Paperman's effort to cope with the bizarre characters an