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The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
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The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time Hardcover - 2016

by Sherrill, Steven

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  • Title The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
  • Author Sherrill, Steven
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Carolina Wren Press
  • Date 2016
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 19104258-6
  • ISBN 9780895876737 / 0895876736
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Interpersonal relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016026939
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the jacket flap

Sixteen years have passed since Steven Sherrill first introduced us to "M," the selfsame Minotaur from Greek mythology, transplanted to the modern American South, in the critically acclaimed The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. M has moved north now, from a life of kitchens and trailer parks, to that of Civil War re-enactor at a run-down living history park in the dying blue-collar rustbelt of central Pennsylvania. Though he dies now, in uniform, on a regular basis, M's world, his daily struggles, remain unchanged. Isolation. Loneliness. Other-ness. Shepherded, cared for, by the Guptas, the immigrant family who runs the motel where he lives, outsiders in their own right, and tolerated by his neighbors, by most of his coworkers at Old Scald Village, but tormented by a few, M wants only to find love and understanding. The serendipitous arrival of Holly and her damaged brother, halted on their own journey of loss, stirs hope in the Minotaur's life. As their paths overlap we find ourselves rooting for the old bull as he stumbles toward a real live human relationship.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/0001, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/15/2016, Page 86
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/19/2016, Page 0

About the author

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.

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