Steve Tesich: Karoo, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Karoo
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 08/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529979541
- Item number:
- 12781481
- Volume:
- 464 Pages
- Weight:
- 500 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 20.8.2026
- Series:
- Vintage Classics
- Note
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Blurb
'Utterly wonderful... confronts the most unbearable sadness with a comic exhilaration that makes you almost pleased that life is tragic' HOWARD JACOBSON 'Poignant and extremely funny...comic writing at its best' THE TIMES
A cult-classic novel about Hollywood life, from the pen of an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
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.
'Mordantly funny, unexpectedly moving and brutally honest' RICHARD E GRANT
'Scathing, hilarious and glorious' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Biography
Steve Tesich wurde 1942 in Jugoslawien geboren und kam im Alter von vierzehn Jahren nach Indiana/USA. Er schriebe zahlreiche Stücke und Drehbücher, u. a. für die Filme "Garp und wie der die Welt" sah und "Breaking Away", für das er einen Oscar erhielt. Nach "Ein letzter Sommer" eroberte auch der Roman "Abspann" die Bestsellerlisten. Steve Tesich starb 1996 im Alter von 53 Jahren.
