er the Great. Since the book was published in Canada in the fall of 2009, it has been treated as a work of some literary merit. It won the 2009 Writers' Trust first prize, and was a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award. In Canada, that’s pretty much the literary trifecta: the best there is." (from januarymagazine.com)So, when BC Ferries, a major transportation company in Canada, banned the book from its gift shops because of it's "graphic cover" (a distant shot of a man's bare buttocks), and admitted to banning other books for similar reasons, it attracted international condemnation for the company. Especially after they admitted to selling several popular magazines that show people in various stages of undress on their covers.
The book recently came out in the United States--with a different cover. But not because of what happened in Canada--it is common practice to have different covers for different editions and countries.
The Golden Mean (US Edition)A startlingly original first novel by “this generation’s answer to Alice Munro” (The Vancouver Sun)—a bold reimagining of one of history’s most intriguing relationships: 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 via the story of this remarkable friendship between two towering figures, innovator and conqueror, whose views of the world still resonate today.
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