a blog about a novel about Aristotle's daughter ~ by Annabel Lyon
I'm so pleased that The Golden Mean is on the Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards shortlist. It's in stellar company, alongside Michael Crummey's Galore and Ian Weir's Daniel O'Thunder. The winner will be announced on June 26, 2010 at the CAA Literary Awards banquet, held at the Harbour Towers Hotel in Victoria, BC. For more information, 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.
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Congratulations and high praise to Annabel Lyon for her work, THE GOLDEN MEAN. As one whose M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation were devoted to topics in the works of Aristotle and who taught Early Greek Philosophy for 35 years, I found Lyon's book engaging, historically competent and tantalizing in its speculation.
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