Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill

Some debut novels become unavoidable reading, splattered across the review pages of the newspapers and filling up the bestseller lists for months on end (not necessarily deservedly). Others linger quietly in the background. Steven Sherrill: never heard of him. But I decided anyway to take a gamble on ?The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break?, promised to be ?wise and ingenious?a tender and wryly witty first novel? by the New York Times. Wry? Witty? Clever? That?s some mark to live up to. And Sherrill manages it, taking the discarded half-man, half-bull creature of myth, and opening our eyes to a period in the life of this immortal being. The Minotaur, or ?M?, is ...