The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Paperback / softback
by Steven Sherrill
Paperback / softback
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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. Steven Sherrill is a graduate of UNC Charlotte and holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
The recipient of a NEA Fellowship for Fiction, he has published four novels and one book of poetry.
His debut novel, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, was published in the UK and translated into eight languages.
Neil Gaiman selected it as one of six audio books to launch “Neil Gaiman Presents†for Audible.com.
A prolific painter and nascent musician, Sherrill is now a professor of English & Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona. " . . . [W]ry, melancholy, beautiful first novel . . . " —The Guardian"Sherrill's narrative, with its dreamlike pace, shows myth coexisting with reality as naturally as it does in ancient epic." —Publishers Weekly"Wise and ingenious" —The New York Times
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:John F Blair Publisher
- Publication Date:20/10/2016
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- ISBN:9780895876751
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:John F Blair Publisher
- Publication Date:20/10/2016
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- ISBN:9780895876751