Sabbath’s Theater
Philip Roth
451 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0679772596
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Language: English
Publish: 839314800000
20th CenturyAmericanClassicsContemporaryFictionJewishLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsThe United States Of America
Winner of the National Book Award for FictionSabbath’s Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress – an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own – Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.