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Book SynopsisSteve 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.
Trade ReviewKaroo has all the ingredients of a truly great novel. Its plot has the pathos of a Greek tragedy and enough twists and turns to satisfy the most avid Raymond Chandler fan. The characters come alive as soon as they appear on the page. Fantastic * Literary Review *
Utterly wonderful... This novel does supremely what novels were invented to do - it 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 about the business of making movies -- Richard E Grant
Fascinating. A real satiric invention, loaded with wise outrage -- Arthur Miller
Terrific. Nakedly honest, a tour de force of self-destruction. As Saul spirals into free-fall we're with him all the way, because he's so furiously funny -- Deborah Moggach
