delivered the "much-anticipated"
- i.e., unreadable and unread -
novel The Tunnel, with which he
had been threatening the reading
public for almost 30 years
(interviews throughout the '70s,
sadly, hilariously describe the
book's release as "imminent").
There it was, Gass's numerous
pals flacked the 653-page book
in the press, suggesting that
The Tunnel - which revolves
around an academic who is
working on a very long, very
overdue summa project and who
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