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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
by Steven Sherrill
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780312308926 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
The Minotaur, M, a fantastical and once fearsome beast from Greek mythology is now reduced to a mundane existence in the gritty South. M dreams in concussions of memory; he 'dreams himself a zygote....in the dry trough of his birth canal the Minotaur dreams already of retribution ? dreams the sluice gate and the hot wash of shame.' Yet even M, the most displaced of creatures, finds himself chancing at hope for happiness of a crude sort. Author Steven Sherrill offers a raw and redeeming take on finding one's place in the world in this excellent debut novel. Aubrey, Powells.com
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Publisher Comments:
Five thousand years out of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at a steakhouse. No longer a devourer of human flesh, the Minotaur is a socially inept, lonely creature with very human needs. But over a two-week period, as his life dissolves into chaos, this broken and alienated immortal awakens to the possibility for happiness and to the capacity for love.
About the Author
Steven Sherrill is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The recipient of a Lila Wallace/ Reader’s Digest Fellowship, his poems and stories have appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Georgia Review. He lives in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780312308926
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Picador USA
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Cooks
- Subject:
- Southern states
- Subject:
- Fantasy fiction
- Subject:
- Minotaur
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Edition Number:
- 1st Picador USA ed.
- Edition Description:
- First
- Series Volume:
- GTR-548
- Publication Date:
- November 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 8.27x5.58x.79 in. .66 lbs.
