Sabbath's Theater (Roth)

Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth, 1995
Knopf Doubleday
464pp.
ISBN-13: 9780679772590

Summary
Winner of the National Book Award

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero.

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 erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed 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 a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction. (From the publisher.)