| 词条 | Don't Stop the Carnival (novel) |
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| name = Don't Stop the Carnival | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:DontStopTheCarnival.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Herman Wouk | illustrator = | cover_artist = Janet Gasson[1] | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Doubleday | release_date = 1965 | pages = 395 |isbn= | oclc= 25632993 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Don't Stop the Carnival is a 1965 novel by American writer Herman Wouk. It is a comedy about escaping middle-age crisis to the Caribbean, a heaven that quickly turns into a hell for the main character. The novel was turned into a short-lived musical and later, album by Jimmy Buffett in 1997. PlotDon't Stop the Carnival revolves around the lead character of Norman Paperman. He is the middle-aged New York City press agent who leaves the noise and safety of the big city and runs away to a (fictional) Caribbean island to redeem and reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. The result is a satirical tale of tropical disaster.[2] The novel takes place on the fictional island of Amerigo. According to the opening of the musical (a paraphrased excerpt from the novel): {{cquote|Kinja was the name of the island when it was British. The actual name was King George III Island, but the islanders shortened that to Kinja. Now the names in the maps and guidebooks is Amerigo, but everybody who lives there still calls it Kinja. The United States acquired the island peacefully in 1940 as part of the shuffling of old destroyers and Caribbean real estate that went on between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. The details of the transaction were, and are, vague to the inhabitants. The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he's not much inclined to believe in it. Meantime, in a fashion, Amerigo was getting American-ized; the inflow of cash was making everybody more prosperous. Most Kinjans go along cheerily with this explosion of American energy in the Caribbean. To them, it seems a new, harmless, and apparently endless carnival.}}BackgroundThis book is said{{by whom?|date=July 2017}} to be loosely based on Herman Wouk's experiences in managing an actual hotel, the Royal Mail Inn, in the early 1960s in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The hotel was on Hassel Island, located in Charlotte Amalie Harbour. AdaptationsThe novel was turned into a short-lived musical and later, album by Jimmy Buffett in 1997. Buffett refers to the development of the musical in his memoir of an aeronautical circumnavigation of the Caribbean shortly after his fiftieth birthday, A Pirate Looks at Fifty. References1. ^[https://www.flickr.com/photos/13313279@N04/sets/72157625652290628/show/ Modern first editions - a set on Flickr] {{1960s-novel-stub}}2. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Stop-Carnival-Herman-Wouk/dp/0316955124 Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel: Herman Wouk: 9780316955126: Amazon.com: Books] 5 : 1965 American novels|Novels by Herman Wouk|Novels set in the Caribbean|Doubleday (publisher) books|Novels set in hotels |
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