ACT 1: Lights come up on Chris’ apartment. He is asleep on the sofa totally covered by a quilt. The alarm clock rings. He leaps out of bed, rushes to shut it off. Opens the window and yells “Hey, you! Paper boy! I told you yesterday, I don’t have a subscription, damn it!
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.