NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * Sabbath’s Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is
its gargantuan hero.

Roth’s richest, most rewarding novel … funny and profound … as powerful as writing can be. -The New York Times Book Review

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.