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Winner of the National Book Award
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers his "richest, most rewarding novel" (New York Times Book Review), about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero who embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.
Once an inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his longtime mistress-an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own-Sabbath, bereft and grieving and besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
"A book that will shock and delight in equal measure, the summit of a remarkable literary career."
"Roth here creates one of contemporary fiction's great characters-and manages the Herculean feat of containing him in a savage, spectacular novel that may well be his best."
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers his "richest, most rewarding novel" (New York Times Book Review), about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero who embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.
Once an inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his longtime mistress-an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own-Sabbath, bereft and grieving and besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
"A book that will shock and delight in equal measure, the summit of a remarkable literary career."
"Roth here creates one of contemporary fiction's great characters-and manages the Herculean feat of containing him in a savage, spectacular novel that may well be his best."