{"product_id":"the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break-paperback","title":"The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSteven 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u0026amp; Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e . . . [W]ry, melancholy, beautiful first novel . . . --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSherrill's narrative, with its dreamlike pace, shows myth coexisting with reality as naturally as it does in ancient epic. --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWise and ingenious --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101534490847,"sku":"9780895876751","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UWN6Tis4dXNsNUNJMnlRRTJBL2FuUT09.webp?v=1781071675","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}