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Apartment In athens
[Paperback - 2004]
david leavitt
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Historical Fiction
Additional Category: Military Fiction - Political Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781590170816 | Pages: 296
Shipping Weight: .306 | Dimensions: 5 x .8 x 7.98 inches

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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.

About the Author

Glenway Wescott grew up in Wisconsin and briefly attended the University of Chicago where he met in 1919 his longtime partner Monroe Wheeler.In 1925 he and Wheeler moved to France, where they mingled with Gertrude Stein and other American expatriates, notably Ernest Hemingway, who created an unflattering portrait of Wescott in the character of Robert Prentiss in The Sun Also Rises.Eventually, Wescott and Wheeler returned to America and lived in New York City, and later on a large farm in Rosemont, New Jersey owned by his brother, the philanthropist Lloyd Wescott, along with other family members.Wescott's early fiction, the novelsThe Apple of the Eye(1924) and the Harper Prize winningThe Grandmothers(1927) and the story collectionGoodbye, Wisconsin(1928) were set in his native Midwest.Later work included essays on political, literary, and spiritual subjects, as well as the novelsThe Pilgrim Hawk(1940), which shared a narrator in Alwyn Towers withThe Grandmothers, andApartment in Athens(1945). Wescott's journals, recording his many literary and artistic friendships, offering an intimate view of his life as a gay man, were published posthumously under the titleContinual Lessons.

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