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Karoo
  • Published: 1 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529979541
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $24.99

Karoo

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1 Dec 2026
Paperback
5 Feb 1999
EBook
1 Dec 2016
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Welcome to the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo - Oscar-winning screenwriter, Steve Tesich's riotous satire of a man imploding is one of the great comic novels of the last few decades

‘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
  • Published: 1 December 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529979541
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

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.
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Praise for Karoo

A rich comedy that hits all its marks and has depth as well as surface shimmer… It’s funny, dry, smart, despairing and has the feel of a forgotten classic, like the best Joseph Heller never wrote

The Times