| Sabbath's Theater: National Book Award Winner Contributor(s): Roth, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679772596 ISBN-13: 9780679772590 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: 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 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96005469 |
| Series: Sabbath's Theater |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.12" W x 8.14" (0.78 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |