Karoo

<p><b>‘Utterly wonderful... confronts the most unbearable sadness with a comic exhilaration that makes you almost pleased that life is tragic’ HOWARD JACOBSON</b></p><p><b>‘Poignant and extremely funny...comic writing at its best’ </b><i><b>THE TIMES</b></i></p><p><b>A cult-classic novel about Hollywood life, from the pen of an Oscar-winning screenwriter. </b></p><p>Welcome 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>‘Mordantly funny, unexpectedly moving and brutally honest’ RICHARD E GRANT </b></p><p><b>'Scathing, hilarious and glorious' <i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i></b></p>