Sabbath's Theater [Lingua inglese]: Philip Roth - Brossura

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0099582015 ISBN 13: 9780099582014

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2000

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"A post-war American masterpiece" (Daily Telegraph)

"This is a wickedly splendid book" (Frank Kermode)

"In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel" (Guardian)

"For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Sabbath explodes some mad genie out of his bottle... Sabbath's Theater has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have read this year" (Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

Reissued in electric new backlist style, Sabbath's Theater is Philip Roth's astounding masterpiece

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099582015
• ISBN 13: 9780099582014
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 496