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.
- ISBN10 1590174828
- ISBN13 9781590174821
- Publish Date 6 July 2011 (first published November 1972)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York Review of Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 296
- Language English