The Sweet Girl - Brossura

Lyon, Annabel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 030735945X ISBN 13: 9780307359452

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2013

Riassunto

A bold and captivating new novel of ancient Greece, from the celebrated, award-winning author of The Golden Mean.

Pythias is her father's daughter, with eyes his exact shade of unlovely, intelligent grey. A slave to his own curiosity and intellect, Aristotle has never been able to resist wit in another--even in a girl child who should be content with the kitchen, the loom and a life dictated by the womb. And oh, his little Pytho is smart, able to best his own students in debate and match wits with a roomful of Athenian philosophers. Is she a freak or a harbinger of what women can really be? Pythias must suffer that argument, but she is also (mostly) secure in her father's regard.

But then Alexander dies a thousand miles from Athens, and sentiment turns against anyone associated with him, most especially his famous Macedonian-born teacher. Aristotle and his family are forced to flee to Chalcis, a garrison town. Ailing, mourning and broken in spirit, Aristotle soon dies. And his orphaned daughter, only 16, finds out that the world is a place of superstition, not logic, and that a girl can be played upon by gods and goddesses as much as by grown men and women. To safely journey to a place in which she can be everything she truly is, Aristotle's daughter will need every ounce of wit she possesses, but also grace and the capacity to love.

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Recensione:

"Lyon's use of a modern voice captivates in this follow-up to her debut novel."
—Chatelaine

"Lyon has given her new heroine a voice that's warm and tender and questioning and very, very smart.... There are no clichés in this coming-of-age fable, just memorable characters and some very human truths."
—The Georgia Straight

"A remarkable novel, not just a pleasure to read but also a book that I expect to reread several times."
—Jeet Heer, National Post

"Lyon has done the requisite homework...and convincingly mixes the modern with the ancient."
—Toronto Star

L'autore:

ANNABEL LYON's first novel, The Golden Mean, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, The Golden Mean has been translated into 14 languages and became a #1 bestseller in Canada. Among Lyon's other work is Oxygen, a short-story collection nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award, and The Best Thing for You, a collection of novellas that was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Before Lyon decided to write full-time, she studied classical music, philosophy and law, and taught piano. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and two children.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 030735945X
• ISBN 13: 9780307359452
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256