num_pages: 652
description: 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. He also is engaged in another secret: digging a tunnel out of his own basement. The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language.
language: English
title: The Tunnel
titlecomplete: The Tunnel
characters: William Frederick Kohler
genres: Classics, Collections, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 1708
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Alfred A Knopf