Glenway Wescott

Apartment in Athens

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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 closet… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59017-482-1
EAN: 9781590174821
Produktnummer: 15734697
Verlag: New York Review Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 338 KB

Über den Autor

Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was the author of the novels The Grandmothers and Apartment in Athens, in addition to several collections of stories and essays. His life-as revealed in his published journals and a joint biography of him and his lover, Monroe Wheeler-has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years. David Leavitt 's books include The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer and the novel The Indian Clerk, a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC /Dublin Literary Award. He co-directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Florida.