An Approach to Omensetter's Luck: A First Novel by William H. Gass
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Authors
Vianello, Claudia Collins
Issue Date
1970
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Thesis
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en_US
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In my now two-year search to discover what William
Gass was talking about in his novel Omensetter's Luck, I
have tried to refer myself to every book review written
about Omensetter's Luck . No formal criticism, to my knowledge,
has ever been published beyond these reviews, except
by William Gass himself . In 1966 Gass wrote a letter
to the publisher of Omensetter's Luck in an attempt to give
the man some idea of what the book was about so that he might
put something relevant on the jacket cover . This letter was
later published in a collection of essays by contemporary
novelists on their novels. Thus the only aid I have found
to understanding William Gass' book is William Gass himself,
and his scattered literary essays and reviews . I have read
practically everything printed by Gass and although this has
not made me any sort of exhaustive Gass scholar, I do believe
that everything Gass has ever written about, whether in his
essays, reviews, or short stories, is also in Omensetter's
Luck.
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v, 115 p.
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