{"product_id":"9781590174821","title":"Apartment in Athens","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like 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\u003econcerns  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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134357782768,"sku":"9781590174821","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590174821_p0.jpg?v=1763802811","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590174821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}