Sabbath's Theater

<p><b>'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br><br>At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. <br><br>But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction...<br><br><b>Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction</b></p> <p><b>'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br><br>At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. <br><br>But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction...<br><br><b>Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction</b></p>