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''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



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A post-war American masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *
This is a wickedly splendid book -- Frank Kermode
In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel * Guardian *
For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece * Times Literary Supplement *
Sabbath explodes some mad genie out of his bottle... Sabbath's Theater has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have read this year * Observer *

Sabbaths Theater

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 5 September 1996
      ISBN-13 9780099582014
      978-0099582014
      ISBN-10 0099582015
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Philip Roth

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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



      Trade Review
      A post-war American masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *
      This is a wickedly splendid book -- Frank Kermode
      In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel * Guardian *
      For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece * Times Literary Supplement *
      Sabbath explodes some mad genie out of his bottle... Sabbath's Theater has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have read this year * Observer *

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