Karoo

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529979541
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2026
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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‘Poignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best’ THE TIMES

Welcome to the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo - an alcoholic who can't get drunk, a loving father who can't bear to be alone with his son, a fixer of film scripts who admits that he ruins every one of them.

Calamity and comedy accompany Karoo on his odyssey through sex, death and show-business as he seeks to save both a master director's greatest film and his own broken life at the same time.

‘Utterly wonderful... confronts the most unbearable sadness with a comic exhilaration that makes you almost pleased that life is tragic’ HOWARD JACOBSON

‘Mordantly funny, unexpectedly moving and brutally honest’ RICHARD E GRANT

'Scathing, hilarious and glorious' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Steve Tesich wrote many plays and screenplays, including the Academy Award-winning Breaking Away and The World According to Garp. His first novel, Summer Crossing, was published in 1982. He died in 1996 at the age of fifty-three.

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