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Karoo

by Steve Tesich

'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
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Pages:

464

Published:

1 Dec 2026

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Imprint

Vintage

ISBN:

9781529979541



'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
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