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Apartment in Athens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590170816)
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xLike 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.
Author: Glenway Wescott
ISBN-10: 1590170814
ISBN-13: 9781590170816
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2004
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.66d
Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 02/12/2009 pg. 34
By Glenway Wescott
xGlenway Wescott (1901-1987) was the author of the novels The Grandmothers and Apartment in Athens, in addition to several collections of stories and essays. His life--as revealed in his published journals and a joint biography of him and his lover, Monroe Wheeler--has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years. David Leavitt 's books include The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer and the novel The Indian Clerk, a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC /Dublin Literary Award. He co-directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida.
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