Sabbath's Theater
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Reissued in electric new backlist style, Sabbath's Theater is Philip Roth's astounding masterpiece
'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday Telegraph
At sixty-four Mickey 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...
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Author: Philip Roth
Format: Paperback, 496 pages, 131mm x 198mm, 349 g
Published: 1996, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Reissued in electric new backlist style, Sabbath's Theater is Philip Roth's astounding masterpiece
'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday Telegraph
At sixty-four Mickey 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...
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Sabbath's Theater