Apartment in Athens

by Glenway Wescott

David Leavitt (Introduction)

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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.

  • 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