Omensetter’s Luck (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William H. Gass
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: 1890’s
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages
- Locales: Ohio
Places Discussed
*Ohio River Valley. Region lush with wild game and vegetation, yet also the domain of animal struggle, the uncontrollable river, and dense growth of weeds and thorns. There, the woods are home to Brackett Omensetter, who can whistle like a cardinal. When he and his family first arrive in Gilean in a horse-drawn wagon, he finds a house to rent owned by Henry Pimber down the South Road near the river, where the woods are dense with trees. Gass depicts nature as the original home of humanity before the onset of rationality and self- consciousness.
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