At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress – an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own – Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction…

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 1996
Publisher: Vintage Books
Languages: English
Pages: 451
ISBN 13: 9780099582014
ISBN 10: 0099582015