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Sabbath's Theater
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- John Turturro
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 12 October 2023
- Run Time
- 18 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
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A post-war American masterpiece
Daily Telegraph
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This is a wickedly splendid book
Frank Kermode
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In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel
Guardian
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For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece
Times Literary Supplement
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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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A work of near-heroic vitality and cunning
Sunday Telegraph
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Absolutely filthy book with one of the most unpleasantly priapic and desperate anti-heroes in modern literature. A delight
Daily Express
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This is the first of Roth’s late masterworks, and the most powerful
The Week
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Details
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- John Turturro
- Duration
- 18 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 October 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529914962
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Satirical fiction and parodies, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt 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
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