a blog about a novel about Aristotle's daughter ~ by Annabel Lyon
An exhilarating book, both brilliant and profound. Annabel Lyon’s spare, fluid, utterly convincing prose pulls us headlong into Aristotle’s original mind. Only Lyon’s great-hearted intelligence could have imagined and achieved the brave ambition of this book. Vital, ferocious and true, The Golden Mean is an oracular vision of the past made present.
--Marina Endicott, author of Good to a Fault
In Lyon’s clever hands, more than two thousand years of difference are made to disappear and Aristotle feels as real and accessible as the man next door. With this powerful, readable act of the imagination, Annabel Lyon proves that she can go anywhere it pleases her to go.
2 comments:
Annabel,
I thoroughly enjoyed your book! I plan to re-read it as I was inclined to race through it to satisfy my curiousity. There is one part of the book that I am trying to reconcile - on page 245 Herpyllis tells Aristotle that she went to work for her mother after he left home and she (I am understanding this to be his mother)sent her to him when he married. I thought that you had Aristotle leave home after the death of his parents. Am I confused?
I am looking forward to reading your earlier books.
Cheryl (also in New West)
Cheryl, you should be a copy editor! (Maybe you are!) That's a mistake on my part, a little leftover bit from an earlier draft, before I realized Aristotle's guardian was his sister's husband, and so assumed his parents must have died when he was young. Thank you so much for pointing this out. I've just e-mailed my editor to ask if we can fix it in the paperback edition. Ack! Thank you again! (Come find me on Facebook if you like and I'll get a corrected version to you once it's out).
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