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.

'Tesich's book tells the startlingly contemporary tale of Saul Karoo, an alcoholic, spiritually debauched middle-aged script doctor... Scathing, hilarious and glorious...' )New York Times Book Review(