Hardcover, 451 pages
English language
Published September 1995 by Houghton Mifflin.
Sabbath’s Theater
by Philip Roth
- ISBN:
- 978-0-395-73982-2
- OCLC Number:
- 31970961
- ASIN:
- 0395739829
- Goodreads:
- 956408
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As much as he wants to be the Marquis de Sade, he is not.
As much as he wants to be seventeen, he is not.
As much as he wants to be dead, he is not.
He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery, and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's bold and hilarious new novel.
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress — an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own — Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey …
As much as he wants to be the Marquis de Sade, he is not.
As much as he wants to be seventeen, he is not.
As much as he wants to be dead, he is not.
He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery, and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's bold and hilarious new novel.
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress — an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own — Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. And Philip Roth, in his twenty-first book, is at the peak of his powers.