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.
| ISBN: | 9781590170816 |
| Publication date: | 4th November 2008 |
| Author: | Glenway Wescott |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Series: | NYRB Classics |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Narrative theme: Politics War, combat and military adventure fiction General Fiction |