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William H Gass
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
A literary event—the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel (“The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.”—Michael Silverblatt, Los Angeles Times; “An extraordinary achievement”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Omensetter’s Luck (“The most important work of fiction by an American...
2) The tunnel
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
After completing the manuscript of a book entitled The Guilt and Innocence of Hitler's Germany, a famous historian who teaches at a university sits down to write the introduction. But instead he finds himself writing on the guilt and innocence of his own life. A look at the craft of resurrecting the past by the author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Four philosophical novellas which explore our quest for meaning and the mind's ability to escape. In one, a woman loses touch with the physical world by immersing herself in poetry, in another a man discovers history in the bric-a-brac of a motel room.