This is a fictionalized version of The Elgin Affair which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 (Non-Fiction). Lord Elgins Lady received glowing reviews throughout America, and was a Kirkus Starred Review....
An authentic and vivid portrait of Greece during World War II. Greece is starving, flies crawl over her body, her belly is swollen, her ribs stick out like rosary beads. God has deserted her. All of her prayers are a hammer on the sea.Kirkus Reviews ...
The romantic and even bizarre circumstances surrounding the appropriation of the Elgin Marbles, down to the unfortunate fates of the principal actors, are thoroughly and fascinatingly set forth by Theodore Vrettos in this melancholy saga of imperial ...