{"product_id":"the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break-by-steven-sherrill","title":"The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill","description":"\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. Steven 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, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, 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. \" . . . [W]ry, melancholy, beautiful first novel . . . \" —The Guardian \"Sherrill's narrative, with its dreamlike pace, shows myth coexisting with reality as naturally as it does in ancient epic.\" —Publishers Weekly Read more\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48160447037625,"sku":"0895876752","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/7871\/0713\/files\/71OQGr0PTSL._AC_SL1500.jpg?v=1784281420","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbuybook.com\/products\/the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break-by-steven-sherrill","provider":"BestBuyBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}