**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. ** 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.