Apartment in Athens

Fiction & Literature, Military, Historical
Cover of the book Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott, New York Review Books
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Author: Glenway Wescott ISBN: 9781590174821
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: July 6, 2011
Imprint: NYRB Classics Language: English
Author: Glenway Wescott
ISBN: 9781590174821
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: July 6, 2011
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Language: English

A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years

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.

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A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years

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.

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