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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

By Steven Sherrill

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| Paperback | 9781841954875

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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, aContinue

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.

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  • You wouldn't want to lock horns with this chef...

    The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Stephen Sherrill Canongate £12.99, pp312 Stephen Sherrill's debut novel springs from an ailing, muffled place, obliterating any Spielberg visions of lush suburban domesticity in a stroke. His characters scratch ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Animal magnetism

    The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill 312pp, Canongate, £12.99 If you have horns it's hard to pass unnoticed, Steven Sherrill remarks towards the end of his wry, melancholy, beautiful first novel. The Minotaur seems to manage pretty ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 184195487X
  • ISBN-13: 9781841954875
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
  • Pub date: Mar 29, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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