The Tunnel (Magill Book Reviews)

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William H. Gass’s work on this monumental novel for more than a quarter of a century is well known to a small but devoted following of his fiction, for he has been publishing parts of it in literary magazines since 1969. Now that this eagerly awaited publishing event has occurred, Gass’s admirers will say that THE TUNNEL is a masterpiece, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, comparable to James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Others—less admiring of Gass’s poetic and philosophic style—will say that it is a bloated monster of a book, a self-indulgent collection of all the most...

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