"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 ...
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"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.
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Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Dust jacket adhered to the boards by the enlightened librarians. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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As New in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0453000592. Hardcover in dust jacket. Olive green textured boards, pristine. First British edition, first printing (1967). SIGNED and inscribed on front free end page ("For Samuel Bellman"--Bellman was one of the founding members of the English and Foreign Language Department at Cal Poly Pomona and taught American literature there for many years). Book is firm in binding, unread. Bellman's ownership plate is on the front paste-down, hidden by the jacket flap. Protected, orange and green, unclipped dust jacket has a half-inch tape repair at top, shelf wear to corners. Gass's first novel. A handsome copy. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 304 pages; Signed by Author.