{"product_id":"apartment-in-athens-isbn-9781590170816","title":"Apartment in Athens","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike Wescott's extraordinary novella \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e (which Susan Sontag described  in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e as belonging \"among the treasures of 20th-century American literature\"),  \u003ci\u003eApartment in Athens\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003eA fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their  culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve…its moderateness, lack of  exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the Greek ideal they reflect  and honor. Everywhere is the dignity of a style in which there is  nothing wasteful and nothing wanting.\u003cbr\u003e— Eudora Welty \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I have not read any other book—either of fiction or direct  documentation—which has given me the feeling of starving and stifling,  of falling back on interior positions, constructing interior defenses,  reorganizing and redirecting, behind a mask of submission, the whole  structure and aim of one’s life, as \u003ci\u003eApartment in Athens\u003c\/i\u003e does.\u003cbr\u003e— Edmund WilsonGlenway Wescott  (1901-1987) was the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Grandmothers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApartment in Athens\u003c\/i\u003e,  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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e David Leavitt ’s books include \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299944452325,"sku":"NP9781590170816","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170816.jpg?v=1767721681","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/apartment-in-athens-isbn-9781590170816","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}