A tender first novel that spans two weeks in the life of the Minotaur, thousands of years after the Theseus caper, living in a North Carolina trailer park and cooking at a steakhouse, awkward with humans but no longer devouring virgins.
A tender first novel that spans two weeks in the life of the Minotaur, thousands of years after the Theseus caper, living in a trailer park and cooking at a steakhouse, awkward with humans but no longer devouring virgins.
A tender first novel that spans two weeks in the life of the Minotaur, thousands of years after the Theseus caper, living in a North Carolina trailer park and cooking at a steakhouse, awkward with human society but no longer devouring virgins.
The staff momentarily forget my wife is a vegetarian and give us two each, but I have no trouble devouring all four.
At dinner at 9 30 (served late, Argentine style), I had no problem devouring a salad of fresh spinach, a plate of homemade pasta and even some chocolate mousse.
Like Hil, she went to meetings to discuss her defining, overwhelming weakness; in the kitchen now she was no doubt devouring a frozen chocolate bar in addition to mixing gin-and-tonics.
This growing boy had no problem devouring a full chicken if given the chance and that made things especially difficult on my mother on a fixed income.
And then, plaintive stares or no, you begin devouring these bundles of delight one by one.
"People who in the first stage devoured as much as they could now are taking care that no one devours what they have," she said.
While I was writing the novel Mentiras, which is inspired by the works of Philip Roth, I read -- no: I devoured -- from Goodbye, Columbus (1959) to Nemesis (2010).
