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Alexis Stamatis's Books

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Oct.01.2000
A young man flees Athens, trying to escape from drink and a number of failed relationships moving from Paros and Munich to London and a mountain village in central Greece, he meets a young woman and it becomes clear that the greatest magic is to be found in reality, not the bottle
Bar Flaubert, Arcadia, 2007
Βar Flaubert»a novel by ALEXIS STAMATIS Summary First Part KILL THE DEAD TIME In Athens, on the evening of 19th April 1998 Yiannis Loukas, an Athenian free-lance journalist working for life-style magazines, who will be forty in July, is at bed with Mania, an actress of second order. The whole story that follows is recounted by Yiannis in the first person. During the act of love...
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American Fugue opens with the protagonist, a writer, on a flight from Greece to the U.S. He is at the lowest point in his life, so when he receives an unexpected invitation to participate in a literary program at a university in the U.S., he takes the opportunity to leave his past behind and make a new beginning. Arriving in the “New World”, he begins an experiment with himself as...