The Tunnel - Softcover

William H. Gass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564782131 ISBN 13: 9781564782137

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 1999

Synopsis

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, "Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany," finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. "The Tunnel" meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language.

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Review:

A strange and monumental novel that took William Gass three decades to write. When a Midwestern historian sits down to write the introduction to his magnum opus study of the Third Reich, he instead writes a chaotic, obscure and labrynthine exploration of his personal history. Then he begins digging a tunnel from the basement of his house. The writing, the digging, and the reader's reading blend into one profound meditation on history, evil, the living and the dead. PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist.

From the Publisher:

From one of the most important American writers of our time, a novel thirty years in the making, exploring evil, history, the living, and the dead. "The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1564782131
• ISBN 13: 9781564782137
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 652