Description
In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for AMERICAN PASTORAL. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA received the Society of American Historiansa (TM) prize for a oethe outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.a Recently Roth received PENa (TM)s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.A multy-talented film stage and television actor, won an LA Drama Critics Award for his performance in Travesties. His Broadway credits include Amadeus, Dracula, and Bent, for which he received a Tony nomination. From AudioFile Those of us who missed reading this 1995 National Book Award winner have another chance to acquaint ourselves with the principal character, Mickey Sabbath--this time in audio. Narrator David Dukes brings this antihero to life. He's a depraved 64-year-old retired puppeteer who lives off his alcoholic wife while pursuing his sexual excesses with another woman. Dukes bellows, whispers, cajoles, purrs, cries, and even taunts us with Sabbath's sexual escapades until we're ready to cry uncle. Then Dukes starts all over again. This clearly is one Roth offering that's even better in audio. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Features & Highlights
- AS MUCH AS AS HE WANTS TO BE THE MAQUIS DE SADE, HE IS NOT. AS MUCH AS HE WANTS TO BE SEVENTEEN, HE IS NOT. AS MUCH AS HE WANTS TO BE DEAD, HE IS NOT.
- He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's bold and hilarious new novel.
- 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 exotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own---Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.
- Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved him most, he contrives a succession of madness and extinction.
- Sabbath's Theatre is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is it's gargantuan hero. Philip Roth, in his twenty-first book, is at the very peak of his powers.
