The Tunnel
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781564782137 (1564782131)
ASIN: B002EBTETG
Publish date: April 1st 1999
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
Poems that will make you cry, limericks that will make you laugh, beautiful metaphors and gripping dark recollections, not bad for a cantankerous old bastard (which I say affectionately, of course).
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