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- Edition:
- Unabridged (Phoenix Audio)
- Length:
- 17 hours, 1 minutes
- File Size:
- 467 MB (162 files)
- Published:
- October 2006
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Summary
He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging power house whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's bold and hilarious new novel. 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 exotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds 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 successions of farcical disastrous that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
Quotes from the Critics
"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 fiction's great characters--and manages the Herculean feat of containing him in a savage, spectacular novel that may well be his best.' - Kirkus
"It's a good thing the term anti-hero already exists, otherwise it would have to be invented for Mickey Sabbath....Roth's fiction has always been filled with a lot more talk than action and 'Sabbath's Theater' is no exception. Incidentally, this is not a criticism. Roth's talk is great talk, packing more punch, more in-your-face aggression than a Quentin Tarantino screenplay." - Montreal Gazette
"...like the suicide note of a man who has become so engrossed explaining why he'd like to die that he forgets to kill himself....Mr. Roth's final joke may be that, pursuing an obsession with sex, he has evolved into a religious writer." - Wall Street Journal
"...a nasty, funny and (of course) hyperintelligent new novel...in scene after scene, Roth offers the traditional novelistic pleasures..." - Newsweek
"Though 'Sabbath's Theater' strives for despair, Mickey Sabbath is too rich, warm, hilarious, unrepentant a man to be despairing. There's enormous Lear-like rage at age and mortality, yes, but despair, no....The sheer power and sweep of 'Sabbath's' and 'Sabbath's' dense weave of contrary contemplation and perception is exhausting. What keeps it going is words--endless, logomaniac spurts, spouts, gouts, cataracts of words." - Tikkun
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