by Philip Roth
First published 1995
Mickey Sabbath is a once-scandalous puppeteer now facing sixty-four. Defiantly libidinous, he embarks on a turbulent reckoning with his past after the death of his longtime mistress, an erotic free spirit. Besieged by ghosts, Sabbath contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness. At the heart of this savage effrontery lies a man grappling with grief, guilt, and his own insatiable appetites.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: grappling-with-grief, unreliable-narrator
451 pages · Paperback · Vintage
Content warnings: death, mental-illness