by Steve TESICH · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782953366495
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«Karoo» is the novel by Steve Tesich published by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture in paperback and in French.
Saul «Doc» Karoo is a script consultant in Hollywood, obese, alcoholic and cynical, who manipulates his life just as he rewrites others' work. When an opportunity for redemption presents itself, his attempt triggers a chain of errors in a black-humor tragicomedy about self-destruction and failure.
Posthumous novel originally published in 1998; this edition, translated by Anne Wicke, appeared on February 23, 2012.
For readers of literary fiction interested in antiheroes, black humor and satire of contemporary Hollywood.
Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away.
