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Karoo
by Steve Tesich
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An epic novel by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Breaking Away". It describes the unhappy life of Doc Karoo, a Hollywood script doctor trying to sell a story, avoid his ex-wife, reconcile himself with his son, and begin a new love affair. Unfortunately, the script is no good, his son is far away at college, and his new girlfriend turns out to be Doc's long-lost mother. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Available editions of Karoo
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9780151002955,
Hardcover,
Harcourt,
1998
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9781890447373,
Paperback,
Open City Books,
2004
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Publisher Notes
Saul Karoo, a successful but overweight, heavy-drinking, and chain-smoking Hollywood script doctor, searches for a solution to the personal problems that threaten his life and happiness, but the path he chooses may turn out to be even more deadly. Reprint.
Media Reviews
"Original, hugely ambitious, seriocomic deathsong by the late Tesich....a far, far-out and haunting ending to cap a powerful and deeply disturbing portrait of a flawed self-detructive, and compulsively fascinating figure."
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