'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous;
''A work of near heroic vitality and cunning'' Sunday Telegraph
At sixty-four Mickey 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...
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
- | Author: Philip Roth
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Sep 05, 1996
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780099582014
- | ISBN-10: 0099582015
- Author:
- Philip Roth
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:
- Sep 05, 1996
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN-13:
- 9780099582014
- ISBN10:
- 0099582015