Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Mickey Sabbath is an outrageous rascal, a retired puppeteer obsessed with
sex and death. His first wife disappeared, and he says he murdered her,
even though his friends know it isn't so. His mistress has left him, and
he has lost his grip on reality. For 30 years, he has been teaching in
rural New England. Now he embarks on a reckless journey back into his
past in search of redemption and lost youth that takes him through
Manhattan and the New Jersey shore. But no matter how ardently he courts
death, he is too alive to succeed at dying.
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