a blog about a novel about Aristotle's daughter ~ by Annabel Lyon
Sorry, couldn't resist that title! It seems that London's The Guardian newspaper has picked up the "no bums on BC Ferries" story, under the headline "Alexander the Great Novel Gets Bum Rap in Canada". To read Alison Flood's article for The Guardian, please click here.
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.
3 comments:
"You can see the boy's bum in Raymond Briggs' The Snowman," says Euan. "And that's *for* kids."
Thought I was logged in as me ... Euan doesn't actually speak about himself in the third person.
Realised there's a bare bum in WYWS too - wonder if we could get on the banned list.
I understand BC Ferry's stance. Their job is to transport passengers from one terminal to another. It's not their job to judge the artistry of a book's cover to determine whether one cover has merit while another is just smut.
Far easier to have a blanket policy, no nudity, no exception, no thinking required. Far better to spend their energy on getting us from point A to point B without us getting wet.
Hopefully, they can now get the American cover. Better blood than bums. Poor little children.
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