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Title	:	Sabbath's Theater
Author	:	Philip Roth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	August 6th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American

Sabbath's Theater Paperback | Pages: 451 pages

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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. 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 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.

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Original Title:	Sabbath's Theater
ISBN:	0679772596 (ISBN13: 9780679772590)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mickey Sabbath, Norman Cowan
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1996), National Book Award for Fiction (1995)

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Sabbaths Theater is a work which is difficult to write about. Words like moving, imaginative or deep are not sufficient to describe it. At the end of the book you feel youve been reading four or five books and not just one. Its a truly breathtaking read. It is Roths prose at its most dense. Its one of those works which makes you put down the book every five pages, put your forehead on the table, and think and imagine for half an hour. The power and force is brutal. First and foremost the work

After the death of his longtime mistress, disgraced former puppeteer Mickey Sabbath sinks deeper and deeper into a prison of depression... First off, Sabbath's Theater won the National Book award in 1995. It's not surprising since it was superbly written. On the other hand, it's also dirtier than a stack of used Longarm's. Seriously. Every time I thought it couldn't get any dirtier, Sabbath did something like masturbate on his mistress's grave.There really isn't much of a plot. Sabbath's

I can respect other folks' positive reviews of SABBATH's THEATER. I'm normally a big Roth fan, too---I really got a lot out of AMERICAN PASTORAL, THE HUMAN STAIN, and THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA. SABBATH for me just didn't do the trick, however. Part of my issue with it, I think, is that Roth hasn't really worried about form or plot in ages---his novels unfold now as dramatic monologues, episodic and without any real drive. As a result, there's a distance between the reader and the action that can

Good morning, DNF America, this is R00ny, aka Percevald Posthumous, come to argue with the echoless void of the internet.I wasn't the biggest Roth fan before this book, but I'd heard from a couple of peopleartists, critics, whose opinions I respect (and it's funny, isn't it, that one can respect an opinion, and not necessarily agree with it...ain't it? Or no? That isn't possible?)who said that Sabbath's Theater was their favorite book of his.So I stopped, and said... maybe there's something to

How could he kill himself now that he had Mortys things? Something always came along to make you keep living, goddamnit. SabbathWell it is Philip Roth and he can turn a phrase better than anybody. So my mediocre rating shouldnt act to discourage anyone from reading this 1995 National Book Award winner. However, the sex-crazed 64 year old Sabbath is not a likable protagonist in anyones worldview. Much of the focus is on crude descriptions of his thoughts and escapades. When his long time lover

This is Roth's masterpiece and one of the best books I have read, morbidly funny, disturbing ,and at times deeply touching, Mickey Sabbath is one hell of a creation and has the behaviour of a complete perverted lunatic one minute and a caring, tender and quite sad person the next. Told in flashback sequences and the present day, mainly focusing on his troubled relationship with both wife and mistress, with moments from his days as a puppeteer in New York. What grabs me is how things can be

I really wanted to like this book. I'm a fan of Roth's work and I'm used to his ranting style and the way he unfolds a story, so I stuck with it for quite a time (about half the book). But in the end it wore me down. I intensely disliked Mickey Sabbath from the start (well, I guess you're supposed to) but despite this I did enjoy some of the early episodes and found some parts hugely amusing. This, however, was not enough to sustain my interest long enough to survive an incomprehensible section