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Indlæser... The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Timeaf Steven Sherrill
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Sixteen years have passed since Steven Sherrill first introduced us to "M," the selfsame Minotaur from Greek mythology, transplanted to the modern American South, in the critically acclaimedThe Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. M has moved north now, from a life of kitchens and trailer parks, to that of Civil War re-enactor at a run-down living history park in the dying blue-collar rustbelt of central Pennsylvania. Though he dies now, in uniform, on a regular basis, M's world, his daily struggles, remain unchanged. Isolation. Loneliness. Other-ness. Shepherded, cared for by the Guptas (the immigrant family who runs the motel where he lives, outsiders in their own right) and tolerated by his neighbors, by most of his coworkers at Old Scald Village, but tormented by a few, M wants only to find love and understanding. The serendipitous arrival of Holly and her damaged brother, halted on their own journey of loss, stirs hope in the Minotaur's life. As their paths overlap we find ourselves rooting for the old bull as he stumbles toward a real live human relationship. 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 & Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona. "Sherrill gives his Minotaur a forlorn Buster Keaton dignity. M has a silent film's starring role in the midst of a country-and-western talkie. Precisely by limiting the beast to deeds, not speech, the writer eventually creates--against all odds--a living hybridized contradiction. M, if stuck in the quicksand of our ticky-tack present, somehow still participates in the silent scale of myth." --The New York Times No library descriptions found. |
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The theme, however, is one that I have been thinking about a lot. When I went home for thanksgiving, Rory seemed older, and slower, but her sweetness was still so vivid, maybe moreso than ever. Her loving eyes, her happy tail thumps, her patience increased with her years. Each moment seems like a treasure, to spend with her, to scratch her. She seems better at communicating what she wants, and it’s possible I’m looking harder for that too, and so the barrier is a little lower than it was when she was younger. There is an undeniable sweetness to the present moment, and that’s what this book captured, whatever else it did.
It also presented a fascination with the emotional power of music, any music, that was moving. It seems, from the art in the back flap (a civil-war-esque portrait of the minotaur seated, in uniform, a gun in his hand, some woman’s hand on his shoulder) and the bio, that this is a story he cannot let go, whether he is painting or making music or writing, and I’m glad I was able to read the second installment eventually.