Black light: a novel (New edition)

Black Light is a voyage of discovery and transformation.

Set in Iran, it tells the story of Jamshid, a quiet simple carpet mender, who one day suddenly commits a murder and is forced to flee.

With this violent act his old life ends and a strange new existence begins.Galway Kinnell combines his gift for precise imagery with a storytellers skill in this journey across the Iranian desertaway from the fragile self-righteous virtues of adopted moral tradition, into the disorder and sexual confusion of agonizing self-knowledge.

First published in 1966 by Houghton Mifflin, this extensively revised paperback edition of Black Light brings a distinguished novel back into print.