{"product_id":"karoo-by-steve-tesich-9781529979541","title":"Karoo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo—Oscar-winning screenwriter, Steve Tesich's riotous satire of a man imploding is one of the great comic novels of the last few decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cstrong\u003eThe Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCalamity 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtterly wonderful... confronts the most unbearable sadness with a comic exhilaration that makes you almost pleased that life is tragic\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cstrong\u003eHoward Jacobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMordantly funny, unexpectedly moving and brutally honest\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cstrong\u003eRichard E Grant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScathing, hilarious and glorious\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48340135837932,"sku":"9781529979541","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529979541-karoo-1.jpg?v=1789012653","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/karoo-by-steve-tesich-9781529979541","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}