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.
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.
Author: Herman Wouk
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 05/15/1992
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316955126
Language: English
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