This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in--with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A ...
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 ...
First published in 1927, and winner of the prestigious Harper Prize, Glenway Wescott's first novel is based on his own family, and set in the American Midwest where he lived until he left, in 1921, to spend the rest of his life in Paris. Like Wescott, his protagonist, Alwyn Tower, is an American in Europe. He is haunted by the stories his ...
Illuminating the adventures of this extraordinary "menage-a-trois" in Paris during the time between the World Wars, "When We Were Three" tells a story of youthful passion and enthusiasm that speaks both to the enduring ties that held Wheeler, Lynes, and Wescott together, as well as to a bygone era. 110 photos.
This highly praised monograph was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the outstanding photography books of the year. As evidenced by the mythological series included in this first book of his work, Lynes stands as one of the great American Surrealists. His extensive work with portraiture and the ballet are invaluable documents of ...
Rural Wisconsin was still a wilderness in these early 1920s stories by Glenway Wescott. The distances between farms and small towns seemed great in those days. So, too, was the struggle of social order and religion against poverty, nature, and a stubborn streak of lawlessness. But the real adventure in these stories is in Wescott's deep ...
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