Five thousand years after leaving the Cretan Labyrinth,the Minotaur - or M as he is known to his colleagues - is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina,keeping his horns down,trying in vain to put his past behind him. He leads an ordered lifestyle in a shabby trailer park where he tinkers with cars,writes and re-writes to-do lists and observes the haphazard goings on around him. Outwardly controlled,M tries to hide his emotional turmoil as he is transported deeper into the human world of deceit,confusion and need.
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Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781786896148Number of pages: 320Weight: 215 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mmEdition: Main - Canons
MEDIA REVIEWS
A wry,melancholy,beautiful first novel...The language is everywhere precise and graceful...GeniusBeautifully detailed and honed...a poetic testament to the wild,unchartable experience of human loving...Sherrill's vision is at once melancholy and deeply affirming. Somewhere in M's inchoate mass of sensation there exists a sharp spark of hopeImmaculate...Sherrill is a beautiful writer...he finds the drama to keep you reading,your heart in your mouth,to the conclusion's defiant roar of hopeAt once ugly,tender and hopeful...Sherrill's Minotaur allows for allusive readings but remains rootedly among usExceptional...Steven Sherrill uses M as the vehicle for a finely observed and compassionate portrayal of humanity in all its guisesThis is the most surreal slab of realism you will read all year. Unique and rather wonderfulSherrill's dense,poetic style never falters in its creation of a perfect metaphor for the eternal outsider(A) brilliant imagination...Every page is a delight worth savouring for a millennium or twoSherrill's narrative,with its dreamlike pace,shows myth coexisting with reality as naturally as it does in ancient epic
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