The Golden Mean

The Golden Mean

By Annabel Lyon
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The style as a whole posesses an often eerie earthiness... This is a novel that stands firmly on its own feet.
Financial Times Review

Among shortlisted titles for Amazon Canada First Novel Award, 2010

Among shortlisted titles for BC Book Prize's Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, 2010

Among shortlisted titles for Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award - Author of the Year, 2010

Among shortlisted titles for Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award - Fiction Book of the Year, 2010

Among shortlisted titles for Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canada & Caribbean), 2010

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Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Finalist for the Giller Prize and Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

The startlingly original first novel-now the basis for the forthcoming Netflix series Alexander-by award-winning writer Annabel Lyon reimagining one of history's most intriguing relationships: that 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 through the story of this remarkable friendship between two towering figures-innovator and conqueror-whose views of the world still resonate today.