Sabbath’s Theater
by Philip Roth (also rec’d by Bruce Springsteen )
Buy on AmazonMy favorite Roth; his dirtiest, funniest book but also one with an epic sweep. Of all the later novels, this is probably his most major, though it was attacked upon its release as going ‘too far’ — but when a novel is this amusingly depraved, isn’t that the point?
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"My favorite Roth; his dirtiest, funniest book but also one with an epic sweep. Of all the later novels, this is probably his most major, though it was attacked upon its release as going ‘too far’ — but when a novel is this amusingly depraved, isn’t that the point?"
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"This is one crazy book, but I just love it. It’s about a reckless, old, out-of-work puppeteer named Mickey Sabbath who gets himself in all kinds of trouble out of sheer libidinous self-destructiveness. Roth wrote it with exuberant abandon, reflecting the character of Sabbath himself."
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