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Sabbath´s Theater
Philip Roth
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Description for Sabbath´s Theater
Paperback. At sixty-four 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 journey into his past. Num Pages: 498 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 406.
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099582014
SKU
9780099582014
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99-2
About Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the ... Read more
Reviews for Sabbath´s Theater
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more