Read by William Gass.

This is the 43-hour audiobook version of The Tunnel by National Book Critics Circle Award
winner William H. Gass (also author of Omensetter's Luck, considered by many critics the
finest piece of American Literature of the 20th Century) read by Gass himself.

"Thirty years in the making, William H. Gass.s second novel first appeared on the literary
scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. It is
the story of a middle-aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study,
Guilt and Innocence in Hitler.s Germany, sets out to write an introduction. Unable to do
so, he finds himself writing about his own life instead, an intensely personal.even private
book that runs counter to the rigidity of his historical work. Isolated, he begins digging
a tunnel out of the basement where he writes.

In this unabridged audio version of The Tunnel, William H. Gass, himself, reads his
universally acclaimed novel in its entirety. It includes outtakes, artwork by the author,
and twelve Philippics (descriptions of the novel.s intention). The Tunnel, already renowned
for its singular tone, is given a powerful new voice in this reading. Gass.essayist,
novelist, philosopher, literary critic.was born in Fargo, North Dakota. One of contemporary
literature.s most important writers, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants.
He lives in St. Louis, where this reading was recorded."

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