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Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0679772596) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath.

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.

Sabbath's Theater won the National Book Award for fiction in 1995.

Category:1995 books Category:American novels Category:Philip Roth novels

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