{"title":"Books by Herman Wouk","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781444779325","title":"Don't Stop the Carnival","description":"It's everyone's dream: to leave behind the rat-race of the working world  and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched  colours, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. This is 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. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk, who himself  lived on an island in the sun for seven years, draws on his own  experiences to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving  about a man's search for happiness, and for himself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299734499701,"sku":"9781444779325","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444779325_7bca2e80-3ea5-4858-882a-2dee756d29a7.jpg?v=1786034282"},{"product_id":"9781444776645","title":"Inside, Outside","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"truly enjoyable\" journey through one man's Jewish American experience by the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMarjorie Morningstar\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery American dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Inside, Outside sweeps through more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of the twenties and thirties to the turbulent immediate past. Scenes of rollicking family humour and show-business comedy alternate with sudden tragedy, the spectacle of a falling President and the explosion of war. A bittersweet first love, relived after forty years, and a tense secret wartime mission between Washington and Jerusalem call forth the author's renowned storytelling gift.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intense, personal book about intimate things, Inside, Outside is a merry, poignant, sometimes ribald picture of the American Jewish experience, by a master at the peak of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extremely funny.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A social comedy of Jewish-American life reaching from New York to Jerusalem and spanning much of the 20th century\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wouk reaffirms his position as one of the nation's eminent storytellers.\" - \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wouk`s most significant work since \u003ci\u003eThe Caine Mutiny\u003c\/i\u003e.\" - \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Generously stuffed with zestfully old-fashioned humor and sentiment.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299811733877,"sku":"9781444776645","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444776645_0bfd31b2-6e8b-4227-8def-546f401447ff.jpg?v=1786021117"},{"product_id":"9781444776621","title":"The Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Glory\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"sprawling, action-packed novel\" of Israel by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hope\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThe Hope\u003c\/i\u003e plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967 - and continues the stories of its multiple characters and of Israel's dramatic struggle for survival across the years. \u003ci\u003eThe Glory\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe rescue, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor - ending with the final hope for peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShifting between Jerusalem and Washington, Los Angeles and Paris, this is the story of a beleaguered country and the men and women who fought for Israeli Independence and triumphed in the Six-Day War but know their fragile nationhood still hangs by a thread as their own children go into battle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminating the inner lives of real Israeli leaders-including David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and Ariel Sharon-the Pulitzer Prize-winning \"master of the historical novel\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) tells the story of Israel's struggle to exist with a compelling sense of both the broad significance of this time in history, and its personal impact on those who lived through it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A genuinely enjoyable read.\" - \u003ci\u003eDetroit News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A top-notch storyteller.\" - \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299890835829,"sku":"9781444776621","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781444776621_97e9df75-d701-4999-a64e-e12bf0d4e862.jpg?v=1786021116"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-herman-wouk.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}