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Sabbath's Theater

By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: John Turturro
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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

Accolades & Awards

National Book Award
1995
Literary Fiction National Book Award Dark Humor Psychological Fiction Jewish Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction World Literature Comedy

Critic reviews

'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning.' Sunday Telegraph

'This is a wickedly splendid book.' Frank Kermode

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