About this title: 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.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8-1/4" x " x 3/4. No Dust Jacket. Cover-has wear, bumped and worn corners and edges. The spine has slight discoloring. Page edges have dust soiling and minor foxing. Inside cover and 3rd page have the dust jacket edges glued to it. read more
Description: Good. NOTE: Good+ 1945 Harper & Bros HARDCOVER. Clean and tight, some minor wear to cover, light yellowing to pages, no DJ. Literature & Fiction / Drama. Helps support Christian Homeschooling family. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good clean tight hardback with only very light oveall wear. pages clean and umarked. dust jacket is good with some light rubbing, price sticker on spine and some very small tears at edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good. Dust Jacket-Worn. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; cover black with blue print on spine, clean, corners and spine slightly bumped. binding secure. pages clean. Dust jacket worn especially edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper and Bros
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good in Fair jacket. First Edition. -First Edition--268 pages. Interior is clean. Cover has moderate bumping and light rubbing. Dust jacket shows heavy signs of use. -Publish Place: -Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Date Published: 1945
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. A former library book with the usual identifiers. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
"A huge let down. It never lived up to the premise. Such a great idea, if only it had been written by another other. This book could have stayed lost, as far as I'm concerned."
"This book offers a very interesting take on "occupation" during WWII. What differentiates this book from most other occupation novels is that it was written while the war was still going on - written from an American perspective about a Greek family that has a Nazi officer live with them during the occupation of Athens.
It is an unsentimental portrait of the banality of day to day existence and the suffering and humiliations associated with war. Wescotts decision to make the Greek family utterly unremarkable in any way was a bold and powerful choice.
While I can much more easily recommend Wescott's "The Pilgrim Hawk" (gorgeous if you havent read it) I was very impressed by how, on one hand, different this book was, but how the Wescott's artistic integrity is clearly on display in both."
"This is a really dark book. I didn't like one person in it. It's about a Greek family that has to share thier home with a Nazi officer during world war two. The German officer goes down and takes everyone that is around him with him. It's hard to read but worth it!!!"
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