Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (English) Paperback Book

Description: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth A work of near heroic vitality and cunning Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reissued in electric new backlist style, Sabbaths Theater is Philip Roths astounding masterpieceA work of near heroic vitality and cunning Sunday TelegraphAt 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 Notes Billed as Roths most successful and controversial novel since Portnoys Complaint, Sabbaths Theater features a characteristically libidinous protagonist, Mickey Sabbath, who, following the death of his mistress, embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Author Biography 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 University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus - a collection of stories, and a novella - for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoys Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of Americas finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.Roths lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously. Review A post-war American masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *This is a wickedly splendid book -- Frank KermodeIn time this will be seen as Roths best novel * Guardian *For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbaths Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece * Times Literary Supplement *Sabbath explodes some mad genie out of his bottle... Sabbaths Theater has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have read this year * Observer * Promotional A postwar American masterpiece - Daily Telegraph Kirkus UK Review Meet Mickey Sabbath, the latest id-driven, angst-ridden member of Philip Roths rogues gallery. Sexagenarian Sabbath, quondam puppeteer, does not know whether to live or die. All the familiar Roth themes are here - conscience and carnality, the Jewish middle-class males obsession with the upper-class WASP female, the infantilism in all men - but they are presented in a style that has lost none of its power. Roths prose shines like a lovingly-polished jewel. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review If Chaucers Wife of Bath had been a male Jewish sexagenarian, she might have sounded a lot like Morris"Mickey" Sabbath. Hes the lustful egomaniac whose breakneck chutzpah powers Roths brilliant new novel - his funniest since the palmy days, so to speak, of Portnoys Complaint. Sabbath was once a notorious puppeteer, whose "Indecent Theater" performances evinced "an unseemly, brilliantly disgusting talent." Now aged 64, on the outs with the wife who bores him (and supports him), Mickey vacillates between clinging to life and preparing for death. He recalls those who needed him or fed his various hungers, including his first wife, Nikki, a beautiful cipher who simply walked out of his life one day and never reappeared; his dead mother, who endured the majority of her years mourning the death in wartime combat of Mickeys older brother Morty; and his dead mistress Drenka, a sexual athlete whose exploits moved him to cheers - all the people he has loved, hated, exploited, abused, and lost. Effectively exiled from his upstate New York home, Sabbath wanders to Manhattan for one old friends funeral, moves in with another (whose wife and daughter he schemes to seduce), survives the mean city streets dangers (in a rude and hilarious parody of Saul Bellows Mr. Sammlers Planet), and repeatedly performs an act of typically Rothian homage at Drenkas gravesite. Theres a delirious, exhilarating grandeur in the mad old mans defiant refusal to mourn or regret, his visceral determination to squeeze every drop of pleasure out of every experience still within his reach. Death may beckon, but, as Mickey Sabbath keeps blissfully rediscovering, "Something always [comes] along to make you keep living, goddamnit." No writer since Henry Miller has depicted sex as the driving force of life with such a scintillating combination of wit and heat. Roth here creates one of contemporary fictions great characters - and manages the Herculean feat of containing him in a savage, spectacular novel that may well be his best. (Kirkus Reviews) Prizes Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1995 Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1996 Review Text A post-war American masterpiece Review Quote A post-war American masterpiece Promotional "Headline" Reissued in electric new backlist style, Sabbaths Theater is Philip Roths astounding masterpiece Details ISBN0099582015 Author Philip Roth ISBN-10 0099582015 ISBN-13 9780099582014 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1933 Media Book Short Title SABBATHS THEATER Language English Residence Newark, US Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 1996 Pages 496 Publication Date 1996-09-05 UK Release Date 1996-09-05 AU Release Date 1996-09-05 NZ Release Date 1996-09-05 Audience General Alternative 9781407018638 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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