The Golden Mean
by:
Annabel Lyon (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307356208 (0307356205)
Publish date: August 11th 2009
Publisher: Random House Canada
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Greece,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
New Review! THE GOLDEN MEAN by Annabel Lyon http://tinyurl.com/q6co8vf This is history with balls. And wombs. Literally! Alexander pre-Great and Aristotle emerge from these pages as vivid, dirty-mouthed and -minded guys. Not exactly the marble-statue view of them, and better for all that.
This fictional story about factual ancient history gripped me.Annabel Lyon writes Aristotle’s story in the first person and we start our reading in the present time. Throughout the book we flashback to an earlier time and then we find ourselves in the present. At first I found this confusing but o...
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