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[quote=MupeImipseMuG]Book Review The Sweet Girl Annabel Lyon Books The Sweet Girl ELLE 
Book Review: 'The Sweet Girl'May 31 12:40 PMby Elyse Moody 0 CommentsPhoto: Philip Friedman/Studio DAnnabel Lyon quickly dispels any notion that the title character of The [url=http://coachfactory-outlets.webs.com/]coach factory outlet[/url] Sweet Girl (Knopf) is an innocent. When we meet Pythias, daughter of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (the subject of Lyon's Hilary Mantel&#150;endorsed 2010 debut, The Golden Mean), she's a seven-year-old who's gleefully helping her dad butcher a lamb and tasting its blood. Her father indulges her passion for the natural sciences but stops short of inviting her into his renowned school, and domestic life bores her. Lyon&#146;s Pythias is [url=http://coachfactory-outlets.webs.com/]coach factory outlet[/url] an outsider&#151;a girl with ambitions, a Macedonian in Athens&#151;who must navigate the realms of scholars and soldiers, gods and slaves, alone after her father&#146;s death. With intoxicatingly earthy [url=http://coachfactory-outlets.webs.com/]coach factory outlet[/url] descriptions, [url=http://coachcoupon.webs.com/]coach promo code[/url] Lyon conjures a world in thrall to the senses, where markets teem with cumin seed and pomegranates and women trail cinnamon and wear hammered-gold flowers in their hair. Likewise, Pythias' sweetness proves to be like that of a ripening fruit or a dripping honeycomb: Left to her own devices, she lets her budding libido be her lodestar. Lyon wisely [url=http://coachcoupon.webs.com/]Coach coupons[/url] allows Pythias to tell her own story, making us witness to the hubris and lust that guide her&#151;primarily, in the direction of her cousin Myrmex. ("Gods, we are a pair!" she thinks, riding beside him.) Through her eyes we watch his gilded body float on the surface of a pollen-covered pond, bringing to mind the shower of gold in which Zeus ravished Dana&#235;. But, as Pythias learns under the tutelage of a priestess, a midwife, and a madam, not every amorous encounter feels like being drugged by a god&#151;and even those that do can rob you of your last drachma.The Sweet Girl is available on June 4. Annabel Lyon Photo: Phillip Chin[/quote]

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