{"product_id":"9781529979541","title":"Karoo - Steve Tesich","description":"`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 TIMESA 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","brand":"Steve Tesich","offers":[{"title":"464 pages \/ 20\/08\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57415887356279,"sku":"9781529979541","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781529979541.jpg?v=1787908847","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781529979541","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}