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A little three-evening sequence of remarkable writers from outside the U.S. (Daniel Kehlmann Monday, Emma Donoghue Wednesday) continues this evening with award-winning Vancouver novelist Annabel Lyon. Her astounding debut novel, The Golden Mean: A Novel of Aristotle and Alexander the Great (Knopf) takes readers viscerally and with verisimilitude back to the day, 2300 years ago. "Historical fiction at its best ... Whether posing the eternally relevant questions of what it means to live a virtuous life, detailing the gory details of an ancient battle scene, or probing the relationship between master and student, Lyon authoritatively evokes a fabled time and place in the urbane and dry voice of the man judged the smartest of his age ... This is a pitch-perfect, even dazzling debut novel." - Elaine Kalmann Naves, Montreal Gazette. " ... Lean, taut, stripped down, The Golden Mean is dense with meaning while also managing to be crisp, direct, and contemporary. Lyon has a poet's eye without allowing her prose to become poetically langorous ... She also rips up the conventions of the historical novel ... Rich, fresh, strange, and deeply original." - Patricia Robertson, Canadian Notes and Queries.
