NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers his "richest, most rewarding novel" (The New York Times Book Review) about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero who embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Once an 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, 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.
WINNER National Book Awards
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"A great work ... Roth's richest, most rewarding novel ... funny and profound ... as powerful as writing can be." —The New York Times Book Review
"This splendidly wicked book ... is among the most remarkable novels in recent years.... The energy of the book is amazing.... Roth is hilariously serious about life and death." —Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books
"Roth's extraordinary new novel is an astonishment and a scourge, and one of the strangest achievements of fictional prose that I have ever read.... It is very exquisite." —James Wood, New Republic
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers his "richest, most rewarding novel" (The New York Times Book Review) about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero who embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Once an 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, 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.
Awards
WINNER National Book Awards
Praise
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"A great work ... Roth's richest, most rewarding novel ... funny and profound ... as powerful as writing can be." —The New York Times Book Review
"This splendidly wicked book ... is among the most remarkable novels in recent years.... The energy of the book is amazing.... Roth is hilariously serious about life and death." —Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books
"Roth's extraordinary new novel is an astonishment and a scourge, and one of the strangest achievements of fictional prose that I have ever read.... It is very exquisite." —James Wood, New Republic
