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Knopf
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0307593991
EAN: 9780307593993
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Fiction Ancient Classics
A startlingly original first novel by “this generation’s
answer to Alice Munro” (The Vancouver Sun)—a bold
reimagining of one of history’s most intriguing
relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and
his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great. 342 BC: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own
ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son of
his boyhood friend Philip of Macedon. But the philosopher
soon comes to realize that teaching this charming,
surprising, sometimes horrifying teenager—heir to the
Macedonian throne, forced onto the battlefield before his
time—is a necessity amid the ever more sinister intrigues of
Philip’s court. Told in the brilliantly rendered voice of Aristotle—keenly
intelligent, often darkly funny—The Golden Mean brings
ancient Greece to vivid life via the story of this
remarkable friendship between two towering figures,
innovator and conqueror, whose views of the world still
resonate today.
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