Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
«A wry, melancholy, beautiful first novel . . . The language is everywhere precise and graceful . . . Genius»
* Guardian *
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Canongate Canons
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781786896148
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«A wry, melancholy, beautiful first novel . . . The language is everywhere precise and graceful . . . Genius»
* Guardian *
«Beautifully 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 hope»
* Observer *
«Immaculate . . . 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 hope»
* Telegraph *
«At once ugly, tender and hopeful . . . Sherrill's Minotaur allows for allusive readings but remains rootedly among us»
* Independent *
«Exceptional . . . Steven Sherrill uses M as the vehicle for a finely observed and compassionate portrayal of humanity in all its guises»
* Irish Independent *
«This is the most surreal slab of realism you will read all year. Unique and rather wonderful»
* Arena *
«Sherrill's dense, poetic style never falters in its creation of a perfect metaphor for the eternal outsider»
CAROL BIRCH, * Wall Street Journal *
«[A] brilliant imagination . . . Every page is a delight worth savouring for a millennium or two»
* USA Today *
«Sherrill's narrative, with its dreamlike pace, shows myth coexisting with reality as naturally as it does in ancient epic»
* Publisher's Weekly *