Middle C

A literary event-the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel.

"Middle C takes its place in that great line of modern novels about inauthenticity. . . . However, there is nothing sham to Gass's art: It's not just dazzling, it's the real thing." -The Washington Post

Middle C follows Joseph Skizzen, who as a child flees Nazi-era Austria with his family, only to lose his father under mysterious circumstances in wartime London. Resettled in small-town ...