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Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth |
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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, & in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, & his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret & sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, & to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, 'magnificently' interwoven with 'the larger public history of modern America.' 'A great work . . . Roth's richest, most rewarding novel . . . funny and profound . . . as powerful as writing can be.' —The New York Times Book Review 'This splendidly wicked book . . . is among the most remarkable novels in recent years. . . . The energy of the book is amazing.... Roth is hilariously serious about life and death.' —Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books 'Roth's extraordinary new novel is an astonishment and a scourge, and one of the strangest achievements of fictional prose that I have ever read. . . . It is very exquisite.' —James Wood, New Republic Sabbath's Theateris 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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