The Tunnel - Softcover

Gass, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564782131 ISBN 13: 9781564782137

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2005

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.

About this title

Review:

"Gass has produced a book that burrows inside us then wails like a beast, a book that mainlines a century's terror direct to the brain."-"Voice Literary Supplement"

About the Author:

William Gass has been a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and Washington University in St. Louis, where he is Director of the International Writers Center.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1564782131
• ISBN 13: 9781564782137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672