The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel

Steven Sherrill

Macmillan, 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.

Contents

• I: 1
• II: 3
• III: 12
• IV: 23
• V: 34
• VI: 35
• VII: 59
• VIII: 71
• IX: 82
• X: 90
• XI: 100
• XII: 101
• XIII: 118
• XIV: 135
• XV: 142
• XVI: 163
• XVII: 164
• XVIII: 169
• XIX: 178
• XX: 188
• XXI: 212
• XXII: 231
• XXIII: 232
• XXIV: 241
• XXV: 255
• XXVI: 261
• XXVII: 270
• XXVIII: 271
• XXIX: 288
• XXX: 313

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: Macmillan, 2002
• ISBN: 0312308922, 9780312308926
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Southern