a blog about a novel about Aristotle's daughter ~ by Annabel Lyon
"We need to get rid of this shame around the human body. Children are not going to be scarred by seeing a human body." NDP Arts Critic Spencer Chandra Herbert
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.
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I'm thinking the BC Civil Liberties Union should partner with your publisher and do an event give-away of The Golden Mean at the ferry docks. Then all we'd need is folks to take pictures of people reading it on the ferries.
However, I think you're ultimately going to find (and I don't mean to downplay the ridiculous censorship at ALL), that this nutty move on the part of BC Ferries will ultimately result in increased sales (I can't imagine very many books other than mass market paperbacks and/or local history are sold on any of the ferries anyway - most of the rides are too short to really *need* a book - magazine or newspaper will usually do the trick). I know I'm certainly planning to read your book sooner rather than later as a result of the kerfuffle.
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