A young stagehand must complete a host of tasks before the moon can take center stage in the theater of night.

菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 美国小说家，出生于新泽西州纽瓦克市。1959年凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》受到瞩目，此后笔耕不辍，获奖无数，赢得国内外的高度认可。2012年宣布封笔，一生共创作29部小说，代表作有《波特诺伊的怨诉》《鬼作家》《萨巴斯剧院》《美国牧歌》《人性的污秽》等。

Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky 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 mos...(展开全部)

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. 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 surpassed even his own-- Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journ...(展开全部)

He is relentlessly defiant. He is exceedingly libidinous. His appetite for the outrageous is insatiable. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at 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 da...(展开全部)

罗伯特•哈里斯（Robert Harris） 英国最重量级畅销小说家。1957年出生于英国诺丁汉，就读于剑桥大学塞尔文学院时已展露出过人才华，曾任剑桥辩论协会主席。毕业后先后于英国广播公司、《观察家报》工作，并担任《星期日泰晤士报》和《每日电讯报》专栏作家。2003年荣获英国新闻奖之年度最佳专栏作家殊荣。1993年，他出版了小说处女作《祖国》（Fatherland），一夜成名，从而转向成为一名小说家。此后的《密码迷情》（Enigma）、《大天使》（Archangel）、《庞贝》（Pompeii）都是风靡欧美的畅销小说。因为题材新颖，情节构思精巧，其作品常常被拍摄成影视作品，由国际大导演罗曼•波兰斯基指导的电影《庞贝》将于2009年上映。对罗伯特•哈里斯的小说推崇备至的波兰斯基也已接下《影子写手》的改编与导演工作，将其搬上大银幕。

The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, n...(展开全部)

Philip Roth’s instant New York Times hardcover bestseller now available in mass market paperback!

Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a re...(展开全部)

Hugh Tremont Montague - code name HARLOT - is one of the grand old men of the CIA, a man obsessed and nearly - but not quite - the WASP patrician he seems to be. The narrator of Harlot's story is Harry Hubbard, whose famous father also belongs to the foudning generation of the CIA. Harry lives in the shadow of both men, but what he does not sense is the core of madness fromwhic...(展开全部)