{"product_id":"9780141180106-omensetters-luck","title":"Omensetter's Luck","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrackett Omensetter arrives, with his wife, family and belongings in the rural American town of Gilean. It swiftly becomes apparent that he is someone out of the ordinary, as he sets off a ground swell of violent emotions in the once tranquil commmunity. Who is he? What does he represent?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, \u003ci\u003eOmensetter's Luck \u003c\/i\u003eis the masterful first novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEyes: Novellas and Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, \u003ci\u003eOmensetter's Luck\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eOmensetter's Luck\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56592424632694,"sku":"9780141180106","price":12.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32249714.jpg?v=1762260239","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141180106-omensetters-luck","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}