Omensetter's Luck
$24.89
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1997
Summary
“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 origina…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141180106 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141180102 |
| Author: | William H. Gass |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1997 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 130mm x 193mm |
| Series: | Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin |
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Critics Review
”[ Omensetter’s Luck is]
”[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
William H. Gass
William H. Gass (1924-2017) - essayist, novelist, literary critic - was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He was the author of six works of fiction and nine books of essays, including Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time. Gass was a former professor of philosophy at Washington University. He lived with his wife, the architect Mary Gass, in St. Louis.
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