num_pages: 451
description: Winner of the National Book Award for FictionSabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. 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.
language: English
title: Sabbath's Theater
titlecomplete: Sabbath's Theater
characters: Mickey Sabbath, Norman Cowan
genres: Jewish, 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 10681
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage