{"product_id":"9781529979541","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Karoo by Steve Tesich","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 20\/08\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e`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 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420588847477,"sku":"9781529979541","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529979541.jpg?v=1774537738","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529979541","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}