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SABBATH'S THEATER
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By: |
Philip Roth |
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ISBN 10: |
0099582015 |
ISBN 13: |
9780099582014 |
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VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 September, 1996 |
Pages: |
464 |
Description: |
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 journey into his past. |
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Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. 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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage |
Prizes: |
Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1995
Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1996 |
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