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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100141180102

ISBN-139780141180106

eBay Product ID (ePID)1033951

Product Key Features

Book TitleOmensetter's Luck

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, General, Literary, Historical

Publication Year1997

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorWilliam H. Gass

Book SeriesClassic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.2 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-150733

Reviews"[ Omensetter's Luck is] Gass' first novel, and his least avant-gardeish, and his best. Basically a religious book. Very sad. Contains the immortal line "The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not." Bleak but gorgeous, like light through ice." -David Foster Wallace " Omsensetter's Luck is the work of a totally committed, totally uncompromising and extraordinarily gifted writer." -Walker Percy "A rich fever, a parade of secrets, delirious, tormented, terrifying, comic...one of the most exciting, energetic and beautiful novels we can ever hope to read." - Harper's

Dewey Edition19

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Grade ToUP

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Synopsis"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." - The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories. Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of various participants and observers - the confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of preternatural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with a propensity for violent thoughts. Omensetter's Luck meticulously brings to life a specific time and place as it illuminates timeless questions about life, love, good, and evil. This edition includes an afterword written by William Gass in 1997. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

LC Classification NumberPS3557.A845O4 1997