{"product_id":"the-tunnel-9781628976366","title":"The Tunnel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerhaps even more chillingly relevant today than it was thirty years ago, this gripping and deeply personal interrogation of fascism returns to print at last in a remarkable full-color anniversary edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tunnel\u003c\/em\u003e, William H. Gass' colossal second novel, thundered onto the literary scene after three decades at the typewriter. Hailed by many as an indisputable masterpiece, reviled by others as a suffocating and overwhelming experiment, \u003ci\u003eThe Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e has been voraciously studied by readers ever since. The story of a middle-aged history professor who, upon nearing completion of his magnum opus, \"Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany,\" finds himself implicated in his own research, and begins to write a parallel work of history: his own life's story. Fearing that someone might find these confessional pages, he begins to dig a tunnel out from beneath his home in an attempt to hide, or escape, from the past that he has so diligently cataloged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tunnel\u003c\/em\u003e is many things: an awe-inspiring and apocalyptic novel that reckons with the accumulating brutality of the twentieth century; a mirror, asking readers to confront their own potential for darkness; and the crowning achievement by one of America's great prose stylists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628976366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 675","brand":"William Gass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239358820533,"sku":"9781628976366","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_970ac99b-5da6-4279-a7f1-4adeed17a4dc.jpg?v=1770917930","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-tunnel-9781628976366","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}