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Sabbath's Theater Book

Mickey Sabbath, the hero in Sabbath's Theater, the winner of the 1995 National Book Award, makes a concerted effort to be bad. Like Alexander Portnoy, the famously self-abusing character in Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint, Sabbath has an appetite for "acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus." But while Portnoy's antics were usually comical and liberating, Sabbath often feels imprisoned by his own acts of self-indulgence. Though his frantic pursuit of sex is a desperate attempt to abate his anxieties about death, it only serves to obliterate any semblance of real life he could have had. Read More

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  • Product Description

    The death of his mistress sends Mickey Sabbath, an audacious libertine and onetime puppeteer, on a psychic journey into his past, in a comic novel by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Operation Shylock. National ad/promo.

  • 0395739829
  • 9780395739822
  • Philip Roth
  • 12 September 1995
  • Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 451
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