Sabbath’s Theater
- Author Philip Roth
- Narrator John Turturro
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 18 hours and 20 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Satirical fiction and parodies.
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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 -
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
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