Imprint: Vintage
Published: 05/09/1996
ISBN: 9780099582014
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 341g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 05/09/1996
ISBN: 9780099582014
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 31mm x 129mm
Weight: 341g
RRP: £9.99
A post-war American masterpiece
This is a wickedly splendid book
In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel
For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece
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