The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312308926 (0312308922)
ASIN: 0312308922
Publish date: 2002-11-01
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
(Edited to repair a glaring omission!)(This turned out to be the longest review I've written and for a 4 star book!)Let me state that td has written the penultimate review of this fine book and I won’t dare to compete with her depth of comprehension (her review was the whole reason I even purchased ...
This certainly qualifies as one of the stranger books I've read. I'm not even sure in which genre to place it. But you can't help but like the poor Minotaur and his attempts to fit in and assuage his eternal loneliness. In the original myth, the Minotaur was slain by Theseus. In this book, he so...
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