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...Stop the Carnival, Wouk...
...Stop the Carnival, Wouk...
...Stop the Carnival, Wouk...
Chains of the Past. Somehow the reader reads on, for at least Author Wouk moves this minor work along in pleasant, soft-shoe style, very welcome .after the heaviness of Youngblood Hawke. And beneath the sagging routines can sometimes be seen a man with a message who got lost. Wouk is no longer at heart a comic writer. He is a moralizer. The burden of his moral is that a man is what he has been: he can do little, perhaps nothing, to break the chains of the past...
...Wouk makes the point in countless small ways throughout Don't Stop the Carnival, as he has in other novels. He makes it with clumsy finality at Carnival's end, when Paperman has apparently mastered all the disasters of Amerigo. At that moment, the senseless accidental death of his actress mistress jerks him out of his dream of a tropical paradise. He realizes that what he really wants is to go back where he belongs, back to the wintry but real world of New York. Tearfully, he does...