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Also by Annabel Lyon:

The Sweet Girl, June 2013
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The Golden Mean, September 2010
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THE GOLDEN MEAN
By: Annabel Lyon

Knopf
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0307593991
EAN: 9780307593993
Hardcover
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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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All Things Considered - July 30, 2010