The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas Stories by Reginald McKnight

"Reginald McKnight dazzles us again. . . . These stories crackle with incendiary humor."
—New York Times Book Review

In voices that are hip and raunchy, bemused and sardonic, award-winning writer Reginald McKnight conjures a chorus of narratives that reveal the African-American middle class to be a crucible of human experience. Outrageously inventive, disarmingly comic, and urgently disturbing, this collection brings a disparate cast of characters face to face with fault lines of identity and the limbo of living between cultures.

The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas was first published by Little, Brown and Company in 1992. This edition is published in cooperation with the Living Writers course at Colgate University.

Winner of the O. Henry Award and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize, REGINALD MCKNIGHT is the recipient of a 1991 NEA grant for literature, a Pushcart Prize, and a 1995 Whiting Writers’ Award. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
ISBN 0-87074-414-3 paper $12.95

LC 96-9063. 5 1/2x8. 208 pp.
Fiction.

Publication Date: August 1996.

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