Steve Tesich

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Steve Tesich


Born
in Serbia
September 29, 1942

Died
July 01, 1996


Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.

His novel Karoo was published posthumously in 1998. Arthur Miller described the novel: "Fascinating—a real satiric invention full of wise outrage.” The novel was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Summer Crossing (1982), was also published in a German translation as Ein letzter Sommer and in a French translation as Rencontre d'été.
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Karoo

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3.85 avg rating — 2,089 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Summer Crossing

3.77 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 1982 — 20 editions
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On the Open Road

4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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The Speed of Darkness

3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Breaking Away

4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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Division Street: A Comedy

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Square One

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Passing game: A drama in tw...

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Ein letzter Sommer Roman

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Nourish the Beast

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“Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.”
Steve Tesich

“Every year it's gonna to be a new one, and every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna me Mike. Twenty-year old Mike. Thirty-year old Mike. Old mean old man Mike.”
Steve Tesich, Breaking Away

“Everybody cheats. I just didn't know.”
Steve Tesich

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