Nike: A Romance

By Nicholas Flokos

Book Overview

On the Greek island of Samothrace, the natives are born dispossessed. They mourn the loss of their Nike, the most beautiful of classical statues, the timeless embodiment of victory and grace. Buried... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395883962
• ISBN13: 9780395883969
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Story! Must Become A Movie!!

I first heard of NIKE on ABC's Good Morning America! It had such great reviews I had to get it. The story is very well written and would make an extremely entertaining film. Flokos has created a wonderful and exciting story around the real NIKE statue in the Louvre. Movie-goers are impatiently waiting for more original stories and will be lined up for this one!!

Flokos: Another classical Greek writer!

Wow! What outstanding writing in this novel! Mr. Flokos deserves plaudits galore. This is a different and memorable story told in a beautiful style. The novel has a universal theme and nothing is extraneous, all details contribute to a final tragic conclusion. Nike deserves to win the National Book Award!

Beautiful writing and great characters in a brilliant debut

This is the book that the phrases "auspicious debut" and "a little gem" were invented for. Flokos is incredibly talented - from the opening sentences you know you're in the hands of a master stylist. It's like reading the first novel of a new Nabokov. The book is the story of a somewhat pathetic, obsessed character, Photi, who wants to "repatriate" (i.e. steal) the statue of the Nike from the Louvre and bring it back to Greece. He is pushed forward in his quest by an imperious documentary filmmaker who wants to film the theft. The results are both hilarious and tragic, and Flokos writes with the soul of a poet. Bravo! Highly recommended.

A Dazzling Entertainment

This is a pitch-perfect "stretcher" -- a tall-tale for grownups that will spirit you away for a few hours to the cobalt-blue Aegean (with couple of memorable side trips to Paris) and leave you charmed and laughing and talking-up a new literary discovery to your friends. This Flokos fellow is a wonderful, risk-taking storyteller; he walks a high-wire here and never once puts a foot wrong. A perfect summer book or weekend read for those who know that high art can also be unabashedly fun.

Excellent story about stealing the Nike from the Louvre.

Beautifully written adventure/love story about how a lowly Greek fisherman is obsessed with repatriating the famous statue, Nike, to his home Agean island, Samothrace. The story is sexy and written in a very pleasing, comic, and dramatic style. It will make a great movie! Nike got a wonderful review in Publishers Weekly, May 4th which called it "spectacular!" I highly recommend it to anyone who likes a romantic story full of drama and human insight.