| Apartment in Athens Contributor(s): Wescott, Glenway (Author), Leavitt, David (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170814 ISBN-13: 9781590170816 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Like Wescott's extraordinary novella "The Pilgrim Hawk" (which Susan Sontag described in "The New Yorker" as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), "Apartment in Athens" concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion--an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004003860 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5" W x 8" (0.65 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging among the treasures of 20th-century American literature), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion--an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity. |