The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Contributor(s): Sherrill, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0895876752 ISBN-13: 9780895876751 Publisher: Blair OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Magical Realism - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Sherrill, Steven: - 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. |