Apartment in Athens
Download or Read eBook Apartment in Athens PDF written by Glenway Wescott and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Glenway Wescott |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2011-07-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781590174821 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1590174828 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Apartment in Athens by : Glenway Wescott
Book excerpt: 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.
