The basis for the Herman Wouk–Jimmy Buffett musical: A middle-aged New Yorker buys a Caribbean hotel and learns that paradise has its drawbacks in this novel that "moves as fast as a Marx Brothers movie" ( The New York Times Book Review).Broadway press agent Norman Paperman is pushing fifty with one heart attack already under his belt. So he decides to chuck the stressful Manhattan life and bring his wife and teenage daughter to a lush green island. With th...

A "truly enjoyable" journey through one man's Jewish American experience by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Marjorie Morningstar ( Newsday).Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing time in the office by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his enco...

An epic of Israel from its founding to the Six-Day War by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: "Full of excitement." — Entertainment WeeklyFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Winds of War and The Caine Mutiny, this saga spans from 1948 to 1967, the early decades of the state of Israel as it struggles for its life, outmatched and surrounded by enemies—the first of the two-part epic that concludes with The Glory

A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in "a tremendous novel . . . full of wisdom and pain" by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author ( Los Angeles Times).Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity.But as Hawke g...

The #1 New York Times –bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of This is My God continues to share his thoughts on Jewish faith and survival.Winner of the Jewish Book Council's Literary Achievement AwardHerman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Mornings...

New York Times Bestseller: "A sprawling action-packed novel" of Israel by the author of The Hope ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).This follow-up to The Hope 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. The Glory takes readers through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famou...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author shares a "valuable, wise, and quietly moving" meditation on orthodox Judaism ( Chicago Tribune ).Renowned for his sweeping historical novels such as The Cain Mutiny and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk now presents a brilliantly distilled examination of his own religious faith. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Cain Mutiny delivers an "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" ( San Francisco Chronicle).City Boy is Herman Wouk's sharp and moving novel of boyhood. A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate...

Now hailed as a "proto-feminist classic" ( Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favorite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s.A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves home to accept the job of her dreams--working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented an...

"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific fact fits into the picture. He relates wonderful conversations he's had with scientists such as Feynman, Murra...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NOW A FEATURE FILM DIRECTED BY WILLIAM FRIEDKIN AND STARRING KIEFER SUTHERLAND, STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIMETHE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL is Herman Wouk's own stage adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny. Upon its original publication, Wouk’s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining drama of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship was immediately embrac...

With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromi...