In William H. Gass's second novel, a history professor named William Kohler writes a scholarly book called 'Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany,' and intersperses a personal memoir in the pages of the manuscript. In the meantime, he is digging a secret tunnel from his basement. The primary thrus ...
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At once personal and political, this novel about being black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes. Reprint.