Can the work of a novelist who has made an art out of his alter egos be illuminated by a chronicle of his life?
Sabbath's Theater (National Book Award Winner)
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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.
Sabbath's Theater (National Book Award Winner)
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.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780679772590 |
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| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 08/06/1996 |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Sales rank: | 162,739 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.15(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.95(d) |
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