" A wry,melancholy, beautiful first novel - the language is everywhere precise and graceful - Genius" The Guardian. This novel is written by Steven Sherrill, an Assistant Professor of English at Penn State, Altoona. The Minotaur (M to his colleagues) works as a line chef in North Carolina, trying to put his past behind him. The Spectator comments: "A hugely sympathetic, instantly recognisable, magically well written account of what it is like to be lonely."