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Grief sets an unsuspecting artists on a journey deep into unsuspected mystical realms. A sequel to the popular short story, 'Marietta Merz'.

In darkness, she walks the labyrinth. Confused. Lost. But not alone. In the Paris of 1970, the hippie revolution has yet to crash land and Minnette searches hungrily for a way to enlightenment. She finds it. Or she finds something and the path of her life is set. But, by the beginning of the 21st Century, Minnette is haunted by the shades of recurring dreams and recurring memories, unsure whether the city around her is as solid as it appears. She looks back on her life s search and on that a winter s evening in Toledo when, for a moment, the gates to another world may have opened and feels the defeat of a life thrown away. But something moves in the shadows, something that comes closer each evening. Combining a mind-spinning vision of another reality just a step away from our own with searing character study and sensual, impressionist prose, In Dreams the Minotaur Appears Last is the latest novel from the author of the ground-breaking anti-novel Vitus Dreams and the acclaimed short story collection, High City Walk.

Taking the explorer, Vitus Bering, as its point of departure, this innovative and extraordinary novel explores dreams and waking, reality, and loss. Why do we give primacy to waking rather than dream experience? What is the nature of symbol? What might the concept of authorship mean? Linguistically playful, lyrical, and poignant, 'Vitus Dreams' explores these questions through surprising and convincing characters: from Ulysses to John Franklin, from the wives left behind to Vitus Bering himself.