num_pages: 315
description: 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.
language: English
title: Omensetter's Luck
titlecomplete: Omensetter's Luck
characters: Henry Pimber, Brackett Omensetter, Jethro Furber
genres: Classics, United States, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 2095
places: Ohio
publisher: Penguin Classics