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Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott (2004, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101590170814
ISBN-139781590170816
eBay Product ID (ePID)5961943
Product Key Features
Book TitleApartment in Athens
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, War & Military, Political, Historical
Publication Year2004
GenreFiction
AuthorGlenway Wescott
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-003860
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsA fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve…its moderateness, lack of exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the Greek ideal they reflect and honor. Everywhere is the dignity of a style in which there is nothing wasteful and nothing wanting. - Eudora Welty I have not read any other book-either of fiction or direct documentation-which has given me the feeling of starving and stifling, of falling back on interior positions, constructing interior defenses, reorganizing and redirecting, behind a mask of submission, the whole structure and aim of one's life, as Apartment in Athens does. - Edmund Wilson, A fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve&its moderateness, lack of exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the Greek ideal they reflect and honor. Everywhere is the dignity of a style in which there is nothing wasteful and nothing wanting. - Eudora Welty I have not read any other book-either of fiction or direct documentation-which has given me the feeling of starving and stifling, of falling back on interior positions, constructing interior defenses, reorganizing and redirecting, behind a mask of submission, the whole structure and aim of one's life, as Apartment in Athens does. - Edmund Wilson
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisLike 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3545.E827A845 2004
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