PRE-ORDER NOW Karoo by Steve Tesich
PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 20/08/2026
`Poignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best' THE TIMESWelcome 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 REVIEWBinding: Paperback / softback
PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 20/08/2026
`Poignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best' THE TIMESWelcome 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 REVIEWBinding: Paperback / softback
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PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 20/08/2026
`Poignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best' THE TIMESWelcome 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 REVIEWBinding: Paperback / softback
