Sabbath's Theater
Mickey Sabbath, a puppeteer with hands ruined by arthritis, is sixty-four when his Croatian mistress dies, taking with her the last thing reconciling him to being alive. He drives to New York for a friend's funeral, insults everyone who has ever helped him, and keeps circling back to the brother lost in the Pacific and the mother who never recovered from it. Roth's filthiest and most grief-stricken book, rated by many critics above all the rest.
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- alludes to ↑ The Tempest
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