The Golden Mean
Soon to be a Netflix adaptation from the creator of HEATED RIVALRY
Published on 1. August 2010
320 pages
978-0-85789-059-7 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword. It is a training that has made the boy sadistic; fiercely brilliant, but unstable. A dangerous trait in a king fated to rule the vastest empire of the ancient world.
Compelled to teach this startling, precocious, sometimes horrifying child, Aristotle soon realises that what the boy needs most to learn - thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields - is the lesson of the golden mean, the elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer in this age of fighting heroes...
Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword. It is a training that has made the boy sadistic; fiercely brilliant, but unstable. A dangerous trait in a king fated to rule the vastest empire of the ancient world.
Compelled to teach this startling, precocious, sometimes horrifying child, Aristotle soon realises that what the boy needs most to learn - thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields - is the lesson of the golden mean, the elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer in this age of fighting heroes...
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,60 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85789-059-7 (9780857890597)
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Annabel Lyon
The Golden Mean
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Annabel Lyon is the author of two short story collections, Oxygen, and The Best Thing for You. She lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children. The Golden Mean is her first novel.
Content
- Cover
- THE GOLDEN MEAN
- ALSO BY ANNABEL LYON:
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
- Epigraph
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- AFTERWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A NOTE ABOUT THE TYPE
