A brilliant and talented young man, rejected by the woman he loves, flees to an Atlantis-like continent where he writes his great life's work-but in the process also realizes that he has forgotten the name of his beloved (``The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter''). In settings ranging from a mythic past, with a detour through hell to a totalitarian and divided US of the future, McKnight's characters, consistently sensitive and serious, try to survive in a world where both men and women must be approached with wariness, racism is endemic, and love is at best equivocal. Evocative stories about the middle class, mostly African- American and male, in search of themselves, from McKnight (I Get on the Bus, 1990 Moustapha's Eclipse, 1988).
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