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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four 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.
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Il teatro di Sabbath, Stefania Bertola, Philip Roth
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- Il teatro di Sabbath
- Language
- Italian
- Authors
- Stefania Bertola, Philip Roth
- Publisher
- Einaudi
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 8806148354
- ISBN13
- 9788806148355
- Series
- First published
- 1995
- Original title
- Sabbath's Theater
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four 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.