He Sleeps - Paperback

by Reginald McKnight (Author)

"A sly, deep, perverse study of black middle-class alienation . . . Subtle and beautifully tuned. McKnight has fused poetic structure with the suspense thriller."
--The New York Times Book Review

Bertrand, a young African-American anthropologist, has ostensibly come to Senegal to do field research. In truth, he left his home in Denver to gain a fresh perspective on his troubled marriage. Struggling to fit in with his new Senegalese family--Alaine, his wife Kene, and their young daughter--Bertrand finds himself, for the first time in his life, haunted by surreal and increasingly violent dreams. His waking hours are no less sinister; unwittingly, it seems, Bertrand has become caught in the tension--sexual and otherwise--building between the married couple.

Author Biography

Reginald McKnight is a short story writer and novelist. He is a professor of English at the University of Georgia, and has previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has received an NEA Grant, an O. Henry Award, a Whiting Award, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His many books include Moustapha's Eclipse, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, and White Boys.