The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel

Steven Sherrill

Picador, Nov 9, 2002 - Fiction - 320 pages

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.

About the author

Steven Sherrill is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The recipient of a Lila Wallace/ Reader’s Digest Fellowship, his poems and stories have appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Georgia Review. He lives in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel
• Author: Steven Sherrill
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Picador, 2002
• ISBN: 0312308922, 9780312308926
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Southern