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He's relentlessly defiant. He's exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He's Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are in the heart of Philip Roth's astonishing new novel. Sabbath's Theater tells Mickey's story in the wake of the death of his mistress, an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey is currently in his mid-sixties and besieged by ghosts - of his mother, his beloved brother, his vanished first wife, his mistress of thirteen years. Bereft and grieving, he embarks on the turbulent journey back into his past, the one that brings him to the brink of madness and extinction. But no matter how ardently he courts death, he's too exuberantly alive to achieve success at dying. Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. This book, which presents Philip Roth at the peak of his powers, is sur