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On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep the kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them in which to live. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we learn of a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is a story of the American Dream gone awry, about what it’s like to feel preprogrammed to fail in life and the urge to escape that sentence.
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Man gone down, Michael Thomas
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Man gone down
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Thomas
- Publisher
- Black Cat
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0802170293
- ISBN13
- 9780802170293
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, Literary Fiction, New York, Race, Racism, African American Literature, Biographical novels, Brooklyn
- First published
- 2007
- Original title
- Man Gone Down
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep the kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them in which to live. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we learn of a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is a story of the American Dream gone awry, about what it’s like to feel preprogrammed to fail in life and the urge to escape that sentence.