Nike: A Romance

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Summary: Starts as caper - ends as tragedy
Review: I enjoyed the first part which promised a light-hearted caper about stealing the Victory of Samothrace with a Greek island setting and bright original erudite wit The pathetic comic hero then takes over the narrative and we delve into deep psychological issues ending in tragedy. This part is also quite good but the change is jarring.

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Summary: Great Story! Must Become A Movie!!
Review: 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!!

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Summary: Flokos tries to do too much
Review: The basic plot is about an attempt to repatriate the Victory of Samothrace. This gets overlaid with the love affairs and neuroses of Photi Anthropotis. For the first two-thirds it reads as a light-hearted caper novel, and a very entertaining one, with a Greek island and Paris backgound. The last part gets more serious and psychologically complex - still very good, but I found it hard to switch gears. Photi is a clownish character at first, but becomes the conflicted and suicidal narrator later.