Apartment in Athens (New York Review Books Classics)

Glenway Wescott's Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who...more

Glenway Wescott's 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, this is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.   less