Tesich, Steve

Summer crossing : a novel by Steve Tesich ( Book )
10 editions published between 1982 and 2005 in English and German and held by 1,163 libraries worldwide
It is about a young man, Daniel Boone Price (a high school wrestler), coming of age, feeling the joy and loss of first love, leaving his drab Middle Western Indiana home and going out into the world to become a writer. It is played out against the concurrent death by cancer of Daniel's bitter father.

Breaking away ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 916 libraries worldwide
The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.

Karoo by Steve Tesich ( Book )
18 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and German and held by 722 libraries worldwide
A comedy on Saul Karoo, a Hollywood script doctor who can fix any story, but his own. Overweight, chain smoking, and uninsured, he is at an age when things break down. He considers his separation from his wife another form of marriage and his relationship with his son is one of avoidance. By the late author of Summer Crossing.

Division Street & other plays by Steve Tesich ( Book )
5 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 575 libraries worldwide

The world according to Garp ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1980 and 2001 in English and held by 512 libraries worldwide
Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.

Breaking away ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1979 and 2002 in English and held by 476 libraries worldwide
Centers on a group of four friends in Bloomington, Ind. The town's youth are split between the students at Indiana University and the locals, derogatorily called "cutters" by the collegians in reference to the town's major industry, a quarry. A marvelously staged climactic bike race brings things to a touching close.

The speed of darkness by Steve Tesich ( Book )
6 editions published between 1989 and 1991 in English and held by 424 libraries worldwide
20 years after they return from Vietnam, two veterans struggle to come to terms with their war experience.

Square one by Steve Tesich ( Book )
6 editions published in 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 311 libraries worldwide

The world according to Garp ( Visual )
12 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 306 libraries worldwide
The story of T.S. Garp (Williams), a man whose life is filled with a strange assortment of characters, some violent, some humourous, and some of which reappear at oddly coincidental times. An ironic statement about life in America during these anxious and casually destructive times.

On the open road : a new play by Steve Tesich ( Book )
6 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 237 libraries worldwide