{"product_id":"tunnel-9781628976366-new","title":"The Tunnel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tunnel\u003c\/em\u003e, William H. Gass' colossal second novel, thundered onto the literary scene in 1995 after three decades at the typewriter. Hailed by many as an indisputable masterpiece, reviled by others as a suffocating and overwhelming experiment, \u003cem\u003eThe Tunnel\u003c\/em\u003e has been voraciously studied by readers ever since. This is 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 of one of America's great prose stylists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"DALKEY ARCHIVE PR","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52579039936802,"sku":"9781628976366-new","price":24.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781628976366.jpg?v=1789758005","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/tunnel-9781628976366-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}