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2004 Facing Athens by George Sarrinikolaou SIGNED Hardcover Book D/J
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 2000s
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Signed
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780865476998
- Book Title
- Facing Athens : Encounters with the Modern City
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Travel, History
- Topic
- Parenting / Fatherhood, Ancient / Greece, Europe / Greece
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865476993
ISBN-13
9780865476998
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30453559
Product Key Features
Book Title
Facing Athens : Encounters with the Modern City
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Ancient / Greece, Europe / Greece
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Family & Relationships, Travel, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-019447
Reviews
" Facing Athens is a fine book--a sober and haunting ode to a lost city, to memory, to the passage of time and the folly of men." --Rosemary Mahoney, author of The Singular Pilgrim, "Facing Athensis a fine book--a sober and haunting ode to a lost city, to memory, to the passage of time and the folly of men." --Rosemary Mahoney, author ofThe Singular Pilgrim
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
949.5/12076/092 B
Synopsis
A legendary city seen afresh from an expatriate's point of view In this original and radiant book, George Sarrinikolaou, a native Athenian expatriated to America, strips Athens of its clichés to reveal a city straining under the passions and burdens of early-twenty-first-century life. Modern Athens exists in the shadow of its ancient past: cradle of civilization, birthplace of democracy, inspiration for the Olympic Games. But as the city prepares to host the 2004 Summer Olympics, it faces challenges quite unlike those depicted in mythology and epic poetry. As Sarrinikolaou walks through the city, striving to face the Athens of his childhood head-on, he encounters people who reveal the demythologized city: newly wealthy Greeks at a Las Vegas-style nightclub; Gypsies building a middle-class house amid their squalid encampment; Kurdish and Eastern European immigrants seeking day labor in Omonia Square; aged Athenians wistfully recalling the past as their neighborhood crumbles around them. In their stories, Sarrinikolaou sees the economic, social, and historical forces that are shaping Athens today. This is the Athens that even many Athenians see only in passing, and in Facing Athens Sarrinikolaou claims it for himself, a perennial visitor, and also for the reader, who, in effect, visits the city through his gritty, lyrical, unstinting, yet finally affectionate portrait of the place.
LC Classification Number
DF920.S26 2004
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