<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The compulsively and clock-racingly readable novel (<i>New York Times Book Review</i>) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical. </b><br> 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. <p/>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.) <p/>It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as <i>The Caine Mutiny</i> and <i>War and Remembrance</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Finely evocative of its sun, sea, and sand...with a comic line that moves as fast as a Marx Brothers movie.--<i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><br>If there are hit musicals in fiction, this is one.--<i><b>Newsweek</b></i><br><br>Wouk's coral cuts, his sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies...His only pirate is a boozy, busted corporate raider named Lester...His hero is a middle-aged New York Jew with a heart condition. The result is not romance but farce laced with tears.--<i><b>Time</b></i><br>
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