Omensetter's Luck
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141180106 (0141180102)
ASIN: 141180102
Publish date: April 1st 1997
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 315
Edition language: English
William H. Gass is a two-bit William Faulkner, that's it. The fact that David Foster Wallace's favorite book was Omensetter's Luck should tell you something already. Omensetter is an innocent sod who decides one day to pack the family up and move to Gilean, Ohio. He's a babe in the woods but e...
3.5 stars.A challenging book to read, mainly because of the author’s mastery of the language and impressive prose. I almost stopped reading because of Jethro’s ‘stream of consciousness’ section in the earlier part of the book which was not only a difficult read, but carried on a bit too long. But I...
This is very difficult for me to rate. The first two short parts are magnificent. The long middle third is mostly taken up with the long, rambling stream-of-consciousness logorrhea of Jethro Furber -- a very complex character, in the final analysis, but which is difficult to follow and unravel (thou...
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