The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break

Steven Sherrill

Canongate Books, Aug 6, 2009 - Fiction - 320 pages

Five thousand years on - and the Minotaur, or M as he is known to his colleagues, is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping to himself, keeping his horns down, trying in vain to put his past behind him. He leads an ordered lifestyle in a shabby trailer park where he tinkers with cars, writes and re-writes to-do lists and observes the haphazard goings on around him. Outwardly controlled, M tries to hide his emotional turmoil as he is transported deeper into the human world of deceit, confusion and need.

About the author

STEVEN SHERRILL is an Assistant Professor of English at Penn State, Altoona, earned an MFA in Poetry from Iowa Writers' Workshop and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction in 2002. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review and The Georgia Review. He lives in Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
• Author: Steven Sherrill
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Canongate Books, 2009
• ISBN: 1847676995, 9781847676993
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General