Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Wescott, Glenway; Leavitt, David |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 4/30/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Like Wescott’s extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag describedin The New Yorker as belonging “among the treasures of 20th-century American literature”),Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story abouta Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters witha German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodationand rejection, resistance and compulsion—an account of political oppression and spiritualstruggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.
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