- Fiction, City and town life, Clergy, Good and evil
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.
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Prestige, contemplative, meticulous and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- William H. Gass
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Signet, New American Library
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780452251977
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