A postwar American masterpiece - Daily Telegraph
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 Historians' Prize for 'the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004'. Recently Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award 'for a body of work ... of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose 'scale of achievement over a sustained career ... places him or her in the highest rank of American literature'. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.
"For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's
Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece"
*Times Literary Supplement*
"Sabbath explodes some mad genie out of his bottle...[Sabbath's
Theater] has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have
read this year"
*Observer*
"In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel so far"
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
"A work of near-heroic vitality and cunning"
*Sunday Telegraph*
"Absolutely filthy book with one of the most unpleasantly priapic
and desperate anti-heroes in modern literature. A delight"
*Daily Express*
Roth's National Book Award-winning novel is a hilarious, beautifully written spoof about an aging puppeteer who finds himself rudderless when the death of his mistress, Drenka, effectively removes the driving force of his life: sex. Mickey Sabbath, now resigned to preparing for his own death, toasts all of the formerly significant figures in his life, including his first wife, who walked out on him; his mother, who was consumed by the death of Mickey's older brother during the war; and the nubile Drenka, whose appeal for Mickey's sexual fealty shortly before her death falls upon deaf ears. David Dukes reads this rip-roaring tale with a sensitivity that complements Roth's well-wrought prose. Recommended for all serious fiction collections, but advise your patrons to listen with the car windows up and the volume down.‘Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal"
"For me, the book of the year - maybe the decade - is Sabbath's
Theater...funny...moving, imaginative, deep... A masterpiece" *
Times Literary Supplement *
"Sabbath explodes some mad genie out of his bottle...[Sabbath's
Theater] has more firestorming prose than any other novel I have
read this year" * Observer *
"In time this will be seen as Roth's best novel so far" -- James
Wood * Guardian, Books of the Year *
"A work of near-heroic vitality and cunning" * Sunday Telegraph
*
"Absolutely filthy book with one of the most unpleasantly priapic
and desperate anti-heroes in modern literature. A delight" -- Nigel
Lindsay * Daily Express *
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