Annabel Lyon s first book, the short-story collection Oxygen, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed and ReLit awards. Her second collection, The Best Thing for You, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction. She lives in New Westminster, B.C., with her husband and two children."
The style as a whole posesses an often eerie earthiness... This is
a novel that stands firmly on its own feet.
"Financial Times Review"
I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is
one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read.
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Annabel Lyon s Aristotle is the most fully realized historical
character in contemporary fiction. The Golden Mean engenders in the
reader the same helpless sensitivity to the ferocious beauty of the
world that is Aristotle s disease. In this alarmingly confident and
transporting debut novel, Lyon offers us that rarest of treats: a
book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and
sings like an earthy romance.
2009 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize Jury Marina Endicott,
Miriam Toews, R. M. Vaughan I absolutely loved The Golden Mean.
Annabel Lyon brings the philosophers and warriors, artists and
whores, princes and slaves of ancient Macedonia alive, with warmth,
wit, and poignancy. Impeccably researched and brilliantly told,
this novel is utterly convincing.
Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly
The Golden Mean, so full of intellect, is a pleasure to read. If
excellence is our standard, then this novel will certainly
flourish.
David Bergen, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning author of The Time in
Between and The Retreat
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.
Fred Stenson, author of The Great Karoo
"Lyon [has] established herself as this generation's answer to
Alice Munro. A master of wordplay and storytelling, Lyon takes
readers deep into the hearts and secret desires of her
characters."
" The Vancouver Sun
""A taut, polished novel that will hold your attention from start
to finish. It is at times funny, thought-provoking, sensual and
suspenseful."
" The Vancouver Sun
""This is a wise and thoughtful book."
The Giller Prize jury citation"
"The style as a whole posesses an often eerie earthiness... This is
a novel that stands firmly on its own feet."
--"Financial Times Review"
"I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is
one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read."
--Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
"Annabel Lyon's Aristotle is the most fully realized historical
character in contemporary fiction. The Golden Mean engenders in the
reader the same helpless sensitivity to the ferocious beauty of the
world that is Aristotle's disease. In this alarmingly confident and
transporting debut novel, Lyon offers us that rarest of treats: a
book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and
sings like an earthy romance."
--2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Jury Marina Endicott,
Miriam Toews, R. M. Vaughan "I absolutely loved The Golden Mean.
Annabel Lyon brings the philosophers and warriors, artists and
whores, princes and slaves of ancient Macedonia alive, with warmth,
wit, and poignancy. Impeccably researched and brilliantly told,
this novel is utterly convincing."
-- Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly
"The Golden Mean, so full of intellect, is a pleasure to read. If
excellence is our standard, then this novel will certainly
flourish."
-- David Bergen, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Time
in Between and The Retreat
"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."
-- Fred Stenson, author of The Great Karoo
"Lyon [has] established herself as this generation's answer to
Alice Munro. A master of wordplay and storytelling, Lyon takes
readers deep into the hearts and secret desires of her
characters."
"-- The Vancouver Sun
""A taut, polished novel that will hold your attention from start
to finish. It is at times funny, thought-provoking, sensual and
suspenseful."
"-- The Vancouver Sun
""This is a wise and thoughtful book."
-- The Giller Prize jury citation
The bond between teacher and student occupies the center of Canadian Lyon's debut novel covering the three years during which Aristotle tutored the young Alexander the Great, before Alexander's accession to the throne of Macedonia. The philosopher narrates, recounting his arrival in the court of Philip of Macedon, Aristotle's upbringing, and his bond with the ruling family. The teenaged Alexander is headstrong and arrogant, but also insecure and vulnerable. "Every student is both a challenge and a laurel leaf," Aristotle says in an early, disputatious meeting. "I haven't seen anything in you that tells me you're extraordinary in any way." Alexander matures as he absorbs Aristotle's core principles. "You must look for the mean between extremes, the point of balance," Aristotle advises the future military genius. Lyon depicts Aristotle's desire to instill a sense of virtue in his royal pupil in clear, often earthy language, and brings 4th-century Greece to startling life. Lyon richly imagines Aristotle's stint as Macedon's royal academician, who gave Alexander the intellectual tools to not only rule but to civilize. (Sept.) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
The style as a whole posesses an often eerie earthiness... This is
a novel that stands firmly on its own feet.
"Financial Times Review"
I think this quietly ambitious and beautifully achieved novel is
one of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read.
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Annabel Lyon s Aristotle is the most fully realized historical
character in contemporary fiction. The Golden Mean engenders in the
reader the same helpless sensitivity to the ferocious beauty of the
world that is Aristotle s disease. In this alarmingly confident and
transporting debut novel, Lyon offers us that rarest of treats: a
book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and
sings like an earthy romance.
2009 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize Jury Marina Endicott,
Miriam Toews, R. M. Vaughan
I absolutely loved The Golden Mean. Annabel Lyon brings the
philosophers and warriors, artists and whores, princes and slaves
of ancient Macedonia alive, with warmth, wit, and poignancy.
Impeccably researched and brilliantly told, this novel is utterly
convincing.
Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly
The Golden Mean, so full of intellect, is a pleasure to read. If
excellence is our standard, then this novel will certainly
flourish.
David Bergen, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning author of The Time in
Between and The Retreat
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.
Fred Stenson, author of The Great Karoo
"Lyon [has] established herself as this generation's answer to
Alice Munro. A master of wordplay and storytelling, Lyon takes
readers deep into the hearts and secret desires of her
characters."
" The Vancouver Sun
""A taut, polished novel that will hold your attention from start
to finish. It is at times funny, thought-provoking, sensual and
suspenseful."
" The Vancouver Sun
""This is a wise and thoughtful book."
The Giller Prize jury citation"
"I absolutely loved The Golden Mean. Annabel Lyon brings the
philosophers and warriors, artists and whores, princes and slaves
of ancient Macedonia alive, with warmth, wit, and poignancy.
Impeccably researched and brilliantly told, this novel is utterly
convincing."
-- Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly
"The Golden Mean, so full of intellect, is a pleasure to read. If
excellence is our standard, then this novel will certainly
flourish."
-- David Bergen, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Time
in Between and The Retreat
"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."
-- Fred Stenson, author of The Great Karoo
"Lyon [has] established herself as this generation's answer to
Alice Munro. A master of wordplay and storytelling, Lyon takes
readers deep into the hearts and secret desires of her
characters."
"-- The Vancouver Sun
""A taut, polished novel that will hold your attention from start
to finish. It is at times funny, thought-provoking, sensual and
suspenseful."
"-- The Vancouver Sun
""This is a wise and thoughtful book."
-- The Giller Prize jury citation
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