Sabbath's Theater: National Book Award Winner -- Philip Roth, Paperback

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero.

Roth's richest, most rewarding novel ... funny and profound ... as powerful as writing can be. --The New York Times Book Review

Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time 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.

Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/06/1996
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.12w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780679772590
Award: National Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/11/1996 pg. 24
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 06/24/1996
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 14

About the Author

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.