"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic.
Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetters 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, Omensetters 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
Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetters 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, Omensetters 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
Omensetters Luck
ΠΡΠΎΡ ΡΠΎΠ²Π°Ρ Π·Π°ΠΊΠΎΠ½ΡΠΈΠ»ΡΡ
ΠΠΏΠΈΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΠ΅ ΠΈ Ρ Π°ΡΠ°ΠΊΡΠ΅ΡΠΈΡΡΠΈΠΊΠΈ
Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetters 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, Omensetters 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. Omensetters 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.
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- ΠΠΎΠ»ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠ²ΠΎ ΡΡΡΠ°Π½ΠΈΡ 322
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- ΠΠΎΠ΄ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΡ 1997
- ISBN 978-0-14-118010-6
- ID ΡΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ° 2933454