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 ...
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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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Seller's Description:
New. Like Wescott's extraordinary novella 'The Pilgrim Hawk', 'Apartment in Athens' concerns an unusual triangular relationship. A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302. 2004. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Black boards are rubbed on edges, sunned on spinecover. Pages faintly tanning in margins, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 268 pp. The cover edges are very slightly rubbed. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. A novel of World War II Greece.
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Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket is rubbed, tanning, chipped and scuffed with worn edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
