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A doctor tells Karoo that he's shrinking vertically and swelling horizontally, as if to push the world even further away. But when he signs on to re-cut the last film of dying directorial great Arthur Houseman, he discovers Leila, Billy's natural mother, playing a bit part in the film, and from that moment he's transformed. In a bizarre twist, the unbelievable melodrama that follows from his attempt to engineer happiness from this coincidence is the stuff of a blockbuster script--offered to him, naturally, for the writing. Karoo is bitter and cynical to the core, but the somewhat heavy-handed ending embraces the possibility of redemption even as it delivers the final insult to its unhappy hero.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A wickedly funny novel about an American anti-hero.Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.Karoo is 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 Saul on his odyssey through sex, death and showbusiness as he seeks to 'fix' both a master director's greatest film and his own broken life at the same time. Karoo is a professional fixer of other people's scripts and, by his own acknowledgement, he ruins them all. Calamity and comedy follows shambolic Saul Karoo as his life breaks down. He is a man prone to luck both good and bad, and when a young woman with a strange connection to his past shows up, the plot of his own life comes into sharp focus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099777915
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Book Description Condition: New. 1999. New Ed. Paperback. Karoo is a professional fixer of other people's scripts and, by his own acknowledgement, he ruins them all. Calamity and comedy follows shambolic Saul Karoo as his life breaks down. He is a man prone to luck both good and bad, and when a young woman with a strange connection to his past shows up, the plot of his own life comes into sharp focus. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 332. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780099777915
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.Karoo is 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. Seller Inventory # B9780099777915