Name: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Rating: 3.454545454545455 (11 reviews)
ISBN: 9780312308926

Steven Sherrill

Five thousand years after escaping the Labyrinth, the immortal Minotaur finds himself living alone in the American South, until chaos disrupts his life and he rediscovers his potential for happiness and love.

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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

Five thousand years on - and the Minotaur, or M as he is known to his colleagues, is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in Carolina, keeping to himself, 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.

A bit strange at times, but I feel mostly bad for m

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Sarah Sammis

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill is a novel I found as I was tracking down the tangental thought of crossing the corn field being akin to the Minotaur's labyrinth. 

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Sarah Escorsa

An excellent read! It's a thought-provoking, melancholy, touching & delicate book. It follows the Minotaur ("M" to his friends) in his quest for acceptance, centuries after his glorious mythological life in Crete. M is trying to put his terrifying past behind him, living a simple life in a trailer park and working as a cook at Grub's Rib in North Carolina. He is shy and clumsy, and his looks added to his limited ability to communicate ("Unnh") certainly don't help him interact with other people!

Callum Turner

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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Channing Williford

Angie Lee

Dave Konopka

Gary Homewood

Nathan Griffin

"Five thousand years out of the Labyrinth that held him captive, and as many years beyond the dubious bargain that set him free, the Minotaur finds himself struggling to negotiate the American South with the body of a man and the head of a bull." "The Minotaur tries to balance the past, the present, and a looming future from behind the cooks' line at Grub's Rib, where his coworkers know both his skill with a chef's knife and the sometimes dangerous nature of his horns. At Lucky-U Mobile Estates, the Minotaur lives in a boat-shaped trailer and shares with his neighbors an appreciation for a quiet lifestyle and a respect for auto repairs." "Over the duration of his life, the Minotaur has roamed the world and seen much, yet he has reaped little wisdom to help him navigate the complex geography of human relationships. Inarticulate, socially inept, tolerated at best by modern folk, he has been reduced from a monster with an appetite for human flesh to a broken creature with very human needs." "During the two weeks covered by the novel, the delicate balance tips, and the Minotaur finds his life dissolving into chaos while he simultaneously awakens to the possibility of love."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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