Sabbath’s Theater

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'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

©1995 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • 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

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