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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 ReviewA 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 *
