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Sabbath's theater, Philip Roth

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Sabbath's theater, Philip Roth

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eng

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fiction

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Sabbath's theater

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Philip Roth

Summary

The death of his mistress sends Mickey Sabbath, an audacious libertine and onetime producer, on a psychic journey into his past

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Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his longtime 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

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