Steven Sherrill
Autor de The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Sobre El Autor
Steven Sherrill is an assistant professor of English at Penn State Altona.
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
- Educación
- Mitchell Community College
University of North Carolina (BA in English Literature)
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop) - Ocupaciones
- Associate Professor (English and Integrative Arts)
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- Obras
- 6
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 922
- Popularidad
- #27,830
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 39
- ISBNs
- 39
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 2
Okay, well, it IS about a minotaur, but it's more about the dullness and meaninglessness of a life in poverty and the normalization and internalization of mockery.
The minotaur hates himself as much as the haters hate him. But he only hates himself because he has been shaped to.
His actions and decisions are exactly human. There is nothing he does in this story that any person after a lifetime of mockery might do...
Not sure about the reviews referring to a lack of closure - this book closes. Is it happy ever after? Did the Minotaur get kissed by the princess and turn back from a frog to a handsome prince... no... but life doesn't offer that...… (más)