Sabbath's Theater

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. 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 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.

• Author
• Philip Roth

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 451

• Publisher
• Vintage

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780679772590

• Characters
• Mickey Sabbath, Norman Cowan

• Genres
• fiction, american, literature, novels, contemporary, classics, americana, jewish

• Release date
• 1996