false <![CDATA[Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg 156188 3 Brackett 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? 150721 1966 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) total:136|5:44|4:53|3:28|2:10|1:1| 136 537 274 18 4049240 0452257859 9780452257856 2 2 Omensetter's Luck 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1228782789m/4049240.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4049240.Omensetter_s_Luck 2 1 false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 14:48:11 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 19:06:02 -0800 2008 Omensetter's Luck. Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about Faulkner, setting aside only a small grain of respect for him due to a handful of rather decent short stories. So reading Gass here was sort of like reading Faulkner. E...more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 5 1 false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 18:57:15 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 15:51:30 -0700 2008 Omensetter’s Luck opens with a short and arresting chapter told from the perspective of a minor character, Israbestis Tott, continuing in the second chapter to tell the story of Henry Pimber, who will be dead by the time the bulk of the novel gets g...more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Fri Jun 19 13:28:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 13:28:07 -0700 2009 STOP SMILING interview with author William H. Gass

Hey, Rube: WILLIAM H. GASS
By Leopold Froehlich

(This interview originally appeared in the STOP SMILING Ode to the Midwest Issue)

William H. Gass’s 1966 masterpiece, Omensetter’s Luck, could be described a...more...]]> 4049240 0452257859 9780452257856 2 2 Omensetter's Luck 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1228782789m/4049240.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4049240.Omensetter_s_Luck 5 1 false Fri Jul 11 20:36:44 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 15:44:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 4 0 false Wed May 13 10:46:31 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:50:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 3 0 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 18:54:14 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 11:19:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 5 0 false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 06 16:29:52 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 25 17:29:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Fri Aug 24 11:49:57 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 12:17:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 4 0 false Thu May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Tue Jan 13 19:07:56 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:52:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 2 0 false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 18:08:26 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:26:42 -0700 2008 The Sound and the Fury. So if you dig Faulkner, then this novel is for you. I, on the other hand, hate (but respect) Faulkner. I picked Gass up because he showed up in a collection of post-modernist work (a bit of an unhealthy obsession of mine). The language is be...more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 5 0 false Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 18 22:42:46 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 16 05:58:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Thu Sep 10 18:55:07 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:55:07 -0700 2009 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Mon Mar 30 07:28:42 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:28:42 -0700 2009 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Wed Sep 23 10:25:57 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:26:19 -0700 2009 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 5 0 false Wed Dec 26 06:57:19 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 09 11:54:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 2 0 false Mon Apr 07 06:01:25 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 06:53:49 -0800 2009 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 2 0 false Tue Mar 04 10:52:24 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 10:59:25 -0800 2008 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 5 0 false Mon Feb 18 04:54:47 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 04:54:47 -0800 2008 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Wed Dec 02 13:01:28 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 13:01:28 -0800 2009 156188 0141180102 9780141180106 132 16 Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172261716m/156188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156188.Omensetter_s_Luck 0 0 false Wed Dec 02 05:29:25 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 05:29:25 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=156188