# Karoo

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- Book: [Karoo](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-tesich/karoo) ([Karoo.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-tesich/karoo.md))
- Authors: [Steve Tesich](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-tesich)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-15-2997-954-1
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2026-08-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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