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FACING ATHENS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MODERN CITY By George Sarrinikolaou EXCELLENT
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- ISBN-10
- 0865476993
- Publication Name
- North Point Press
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780865476998
- Book Title
- Facing Athens : Encounters with the Modern City
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Travel, History
- Topic
- Parenting / Fatherhood, Ancient / Greece, Europe / Greece
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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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.
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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
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Ancient / Greece, Europe / Greece
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Family & Relationships, Travel, History
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
10 oz
Additional Product Features
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Df920.S26 2004
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" 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
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-019447
Dewey Decimal
949.5/12076/092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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