Sabbath's theater

Resource Information

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Label

Sabbath's theater

Statement of responsibility

Philip Roth

Creator

• Roth, Philip

Contributor

• Recorded Books, LLC

Subject

• Electronic books
• National Book Awards

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's astonishing novel. Sabbath's Theater tells Mickey's story in the wake of the death of his mistress, an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey is now in his mid-sixties and besieged by ghosts-of his mother, his beloved brother, his vanished first wife, his mistress of thirteen years. Bereft and grieving, he embarks on a turbulent journey back into his past, one that brings him to the brink of madness and extinction. But no matter how ardently he courts death, he is too exuberantly alive to succeed at dying. Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero

Additional physical form

Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices.

Awards note

National Book Award winner, 1995.

Cataloging source

MdPfRBL

Dewey number

813.54

Index

no index present

Literary form

unknown

Nature of contents

dictionaries