23%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Karoo
Steve Tesich
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Karoo
Paperback. Karoo is a professional fixer of other people's scripts and, by his own acknowledgement, he ruins them all. Calamity and comedy follows shambolic Saul Karoo as his life breaks down. He is a man prone to luck both good and bad, and when a young woman with a strange connection to his past shows up, the plot of his own life comes into sharp focus. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 332.
Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.
Karoo is 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 Saul on his odyssey through sex, death and showbusiness as he seeks to 'fix' both a master director's greatest film and his own broken life at the same time.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099777915
SKU
V9780099777915
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Steve Tesich
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.
Reviews for Karoo
Karoo has all the ingredients of a truly great novel. Its plot has the pathos of a Greek tragedy and enough twists and turns to satisfy the most avid Raymond Chandler fan. The characters come alive as soon as they appear on the page. Fantastic
Literary Review
Utterly wonderful... This novel does supremely what novels were invented to ... Read more
Literary Review
Utterly wonderful... This novel does supremely what novels were invented to ... Read more