‘Poignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best’ THE TIMESWelcome 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
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.
