Omensetter's Luck

Name: Omensetter's Luck
Author: William H. Gass

by William H. Gass

Sparse modernist novel of spiritual alienation and redemption in Midwest

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William H. Gass

William H. Gass was a philosopher-novelist whose Omensetter's Luck and the novella In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established him as the most philosophically sophisticated prose stylist of his American generation. His essays on fiction were equally important.

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In the Heart of the Heart of the CountryLyrical meditation on small-town American life and internal consciousness
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