God damn, Omensetter's Luck was good. I highly recommend it.

>>9187248
What were your favorite parts. Why was it good. What books can you compare it to.

>>9187248
shit. i started that a year ago and never finished it. I should read it.

>>9187248
Your first Gass? Tell us more, op.

Just finished it as well. Probably the most striking thing about it to me was just how beautifully and consistently and originally he draws the elements of nature and pastoral living into his metaphors. He really creates the feeling that in an earlier period the natural world is the metric by which everything can be understood.

Example:
". . . and moments ran on mindlessly like driven cattle, and young men struggled in the net of their friends, relatives, and other connections for a while like dripping fish before wearing out their wills and settling down to live with the rest of the gently poor, their pets, and their obsequious diseases . . . where bitterness grew on everything like ivy."