Rebecca's review
Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
Rebecca's review
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Rebecca's review
rating:
This was the most difficult to get into and appreciate of the Philip Roth books I've read so far. While respecting his rich and detailed descriptive style and his challenging and engaging dialogue, it was really hard for me to like a book where the main character is as over-sexual, blatantly perverted and borderline clinically cukoo as Roth's Mikey Sabbath. The craft of the character is insightful (perhaps too much so), but he had me cringing all too many times. But the book did raise some interesting questions: Are types like Mikey Sabbath the deviant or the norm? Which is scarier? Underneath life's many facades, is everyone a pathetic train-wreck like Mikey?
