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title: "Karoo: A Novel"
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# Karoo: A Novel

**Brand:** steve tesich
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- **What is this?** Karoo: A Novel by steve tesich
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## Customer Reviews

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    Happy Hack
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2009*

This novel of the 1990s is entertaining and competent, but I thought that Bellow or Updike or P.Roth had already written it. In other words, it doesn't seem to walk new paths, really. But since it does really amuse, at least me, I do not deduct a star.Hero Saul Karoo is a repairman for faulty screenplays. Though he works for Hollywood, he lives in New York. He is successful and wealthy. But he is a sick man. He is, in his 50s, not just overweight, but fat. He is a confirmed alcoholic, but what is worse, he has developed an immunity against alcohol. He has been rendered permanently sober by some mysterious disease. No amount of booze can make him drunk. He could just as well quit if that wouldn't disappoint his wife, who bases her approach to divorce entirely on his drinking. See, he is a good man.His main emotional disease is his fear of privacy. That has ruined his marriage, in his view. It also keeps him away from his son, who craves personal attention from dad. He feels at home only when in other people's homes. It also makes him unable to have any other lasting relationship. He has just one friend left.He is also a confirmed cynic and realist. He knows what talent is and he knows that he doesn't have it. He can never write anything original. He even has re-writer's block.His divorce is dragging on, because, in his words, the advantages of an unhappy marriage are not easily dismissed.He loathes his Hollywood employers, but then, feeling semi-decent is one of the fringe benefits of associating with evil.An intelligent, amusing lightweight, if you got nothing better to do. Mainly for the aging male population. One might see it as a companion volume to the Bucket List movie, making old geezers chuckle about their friends' difficulties.

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    Not for sophomores.
  

*by D***C on Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2017*

I did not know of this novel until recently; it should be an American modern classic. Not for the squeamish, but I couldn't put it down. There are all kinds of 'criticisms' I could make, but the antidote to a lit.crit. intellectualization is in the reading: an excruciatingly self-destructive character; an adult Holden Caulfield who leads you down a steep spiral into destruction.The humor is very dark; there could not be a happy ending. Satire of commercial movie-making is vicious.  A novel to re-read, 'cause I'm sure I missed a lot.

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    Oedipal letdown
  

*by K***X on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2013*

I truly wanted to like this book, and the fact is I did the first two thirds. Loved it. And then as I sensed the last third coming on I could smell it...and it was rank. No, I kept thinking. Don't do it. Don't take that old Greek chestnut and put a contemporary spin on it; DON'T DO IT; no, anything but that. You have a chance to do something else here, something better and more fitting...The terrific, absolutely marvelous first two thirds are even showing you which direction to go in... Don't force YOUR preconceived ideas on the plot, but instead let the story take you where IT wants to go...Alas, my pleas were  in vain.

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