Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0679772596) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Sabbaths_theater. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is a Jewish-American novelist who is best known for his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoys Complaint (1969) and for his late-90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). ...

Sabbath is an unproductive, out-of-work, former puppeteer with a strong affinity for whores, adultery, and casual sexual exploits. He takes great pleasure in being the prototypical "dirty old man". The loss of his decades-long sexual "sidekicker", the equally adulterous Drenka, precipitates a midlife crisis. Sabbath wonders whether he should just end it all, thereby heeding the advice of the ghost of his departed mother, a frequent visitor who urges suicide as the fitting end for his failed life. Jump to: navigation, search A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object to create the illusion of life. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... Adultery is generally defined as consensual sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their lawful spouse. ... Jump to: navigation, search This page concerns suicide. ...

Sabbath's Theater won the National Book Award for fiction in 1995. The National Book Awards is the most important literary prize in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and is presently awarded in each of four...