The sweet girl : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307359445 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0307359441 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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236 p. ; 22 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:dec.12 |
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Subject: | Aristotle -- Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction Women -- Greece -- Social conditions -- Fiction Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. |
Available copies
- 10 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Lyon (Text) | 33294001833532 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
A bold and captivating new novel of ancient Greece, from the celebrated, award-winning author ofThe 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.