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Karoo
EN NWISBN: 9780099777915 bzw. 0099777916, in Englisch, World Health Organization, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Despatched same working day before 3pm.
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.
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.
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Karoo (1999)
EN PB NWISBN: 9780099777915 bzw. 0099777916, in Englisch, Vintage Publishing, Taschenbuch, neu.
Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.
It was a tradition with the McNabs, George and Pat, to have a day-after-Christmas party but never before had the events of the world conspired to make the party so lively and so appropriate. There was so much to celebrate and talk about. There was Havel, the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, the collapse of Communism, Gorbachev and, for the next few days at least, there were all these Romanians with their delicious-sounding names.
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. Originally published in 1998, Karoo has become widely recognised as a modern classic, a caustic, original and sharply observed portrait of 1980's New York.
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Karoo (1999)
EN PB NWISBN: 9780099777915 bzw. 0099777916, in Englisch, Vintage Publishing, Taschenbuch, neu.
Lieferung aus: Niederlande, 3-4 werkdagen.
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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.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 27x198x129 mm;Gewicht: 327,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: januari 1999;ISBN10: 0099777916;ISBN13: 9780099777915; Engelstalig | Paperback | 1999.
bol.com.
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.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 27x198x129 mm;Gewicht: 327,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: januari 1999;ISBN10: 0099777916;ISBN13: 9780099777915; Engelstalig | Paperback | 1999.
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Karoo (1999)
EN PB USISBN: 9780099777915 bzw. 0099777916, in Englisch, 406 Seiten, Vintage Books, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, awesomebookscanada.
There are far more tragicomic possibilities in the lives of gracelessly aging men than one might suspect, and the list of writers who have taken advantage of them is small but fertile--Mordecai Richler, John Updike, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow among them. The late Steve Tesich, best known for his original screenplay for Breaking Away, joins this august group with the tale of Saul Karoo, a wealthy, alcoholic Hollywood script doctor plagued by exactly the kind of banal problems that he has ruthlessly edited out of the scripts of others--most notably a fear of intimacy. He meets regularly with his estranged wife Dianah to discuss the academic question of their ever-impending divorce and celebrate the anniversary of their separation. "Tender, deeply felt, full of love, that's the kind of divorce we had in mind... The more we talked about divorce, the more married we seemed." His adopted teenage son, Billy, keeps pushing for more dedicated father-son contact, to Karoo's great discomfort: "I loved Billy, but I was absolutely incapable of loving him in private where it was just the two of us. That was another disease I had... Evasion of privacy. Evasion at all cost of privacy of any kind. With anyone." 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. Paperback, Etiqueta: Vintage Books, Vintage Books, Grupo de producto: Book, Publicado: 1999-01-01, Estudio: Vintage Books, Rango de ventas: 2842986.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, awesomebookscanada.
There are far more tragicomic possibilities in the lives of gracelessly aging men than one might suspect, and the list of writers who have taken advantage of them is small but fertile--Mordecai Richler, John Updike, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow among them. The late Steve Tesich, best known for his original screenplay for Breaking Away, joins this august group with the tale of Saul Karoo, a wealthy, alcoholic Hollywood script doctor plagued by exactly the kind of banal problems that he has ruthlessly edited out of the scripts of others--most notably a fear of intimacy. He meets regularly with his estranged wife Dianah to discuss the academic question of their ever-impending divorce and celebrate the anniversary of their separation. "Tender, deeply felt, full of love, that's the kind of divorce we had in mind... The more we talked about divorce, the more married we seemed." His adopted teenage son, Billy, keeps pushing for more dedicated father-son contact, to Karoo's great discomfort: "I loved Billy, but I was absolutely incapable of loving him in private where it was just the two of us. That was another disease I had... Evasion of privacy. Evasion at all cost of privacy of any kind. With anyone." 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. Paperback, Etiqueta: Vintage Books, Vintage Books, Grupo de producto: Book, Publicado: 1999-01-01, Estudio: Vintage Books, Rango de ventas: 2842986.
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