Omensetter´s Luck

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...