Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater

Details
Paperback - As new

Ratings
3.9/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
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 surpassed 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.

"In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel" - Guardian
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"For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece." - Times Literary Supplement
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"Sabbath explodes like some mad genie out of his bottle...Sabbath's Theater has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have read this year" - Observer