Sabbath's Theater

Philip Roth author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Sep '96

Should be back in stock very soon

Sabbath's Theater cover

'A postwar American masterpiece' - Daily Telegraph

'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday Telegraph

At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous;

'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday Telegraph

At sixty-four Mickey 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...

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

A post-war American masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *
This is a wickedly splendid book -- Frank Kermode
In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel * Guardian *
For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece * Times Literary Supplement *
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 * Observer *

  • Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1995
  • Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1996

ISBN: 9780099582014

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm

Weight: 341g

496 pages