Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (Paperback)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. "Roth's richest, most rewarding novel ... funny and profound ... as powerful as writing can be." —The New York Times Book Review Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress—an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own—Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.