{"product_id":"sabbaths-theater-isbn-9780679772590","title":"Sabbath's Theater","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e delivers his \"richest, most rewarding novel\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero who embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Once an 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, bereft and grieving and besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A great work ... Roth's richest, most rewarding novel ... funny and profound   ... as powerful as writing can be.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cb\u003e —Frank Kermode, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"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.\" \u003cb\u003e—James Wood, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.National Book Award Winner","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303448367333,"sku":"NP9780679772590","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679772590.jpg?v=1767736011","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sabbaths-theater-isbn-9780679772590","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}