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Cover of Meeting the Minotaur
First published
1997
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages
398 pages
ISBN
1565121260

Meeting the Minotaur

The outer archives are busy

by Carol Dawson

Adventure

About this book

At six foot six inches tall, Taylor Troys stands out in a crowd - or, more likely, he stumbles out of it. For nearly all of his twenty years he has struggled with a handicap that causes him to lose his equilibrium and makes his centerless world spin out of control. A most unlikely cat burglar. A most unlikely hero. But hero he is, in this adventurous modern-day retelling of an ancient Greek myth - the myth of Theseus and the minotaur. From the jungles of the Yucatan, to the border crossings of Mexico, to the glass towers of corporate Dallas, we follow a young man's quest to steal his way into his inheritance and to prove that he's his father's son. Dawson unfolds the story of this reluctant hero whose soul harks back to the days of Hercules and Odysseus, but who finds himself in a world of beach resorts, illegal aliens, drug smugglers, and international corporate intrigue. Is it possible to have a mythical hero in the waning days of the twentieth century?

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