Stationary, spherical accretion onto an unmagnetized neutron star is here reconsidered in the wake of the seminal 1969 paper by Zel'dovich & Shakura. It is found that new '' hot '' solutions may exist for a wide range of luminosities. These solutions are characterized by a high temperature, 10(9)-10(11) K, and arise from a stationary equilibrium model where the dominant radiative mechanisms are multiple Compton scattering and bremsstrahlung emission. For low luminosities, less than or similar 10(-2) L(E), only the '' cold '' (a la Zel'dovich and Shakura) solution is present.