Sabbath's Theater
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Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0-679-77259-6) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1995.
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". In addition, he enjoys manipulating the people surrounding him, mainly women, as he in the past did with puppets. The loss of his decades-long sexual "sidekicker", the equally adulterous Drenka, precipitates a crisis in a life he has since long been considered an utter failure. 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.
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