State of Grace
Joy Williams
State of Grace by Joy Williams is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~7.6 hr
Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth (1995)
About this book
"As much as he wants to be the Marquis de Sade, he is not. As much as he wants to be seventeen, he is not. As much as he wants to be dead, he is not. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roth's new novel.". "Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction."--BOOK JACKET.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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