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Description for Man Gone Down
Paperback. An extraordinary debut that tackles race, wealth and family head on as a young black man finds the American Dream dissolving around him. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 43. Weight in Grams: 416. Good clean copy
On the eve of this 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 his kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them to live in. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we discover a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated ... Read more
On the eve of this 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 his kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them to live in. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we discover a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848872431
SKU
KSG0020757
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas was born and raised in Boston. He's been a cab driver, carpenter, restaurateur and filmmaker. He received his BA from Hunter College and his MFA from Warren Wilson College. He teaches at Hunter and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Man Gone Down is his first novel.
Reviews for Man Gone Down
[A] jazzy, sinewy debut... Thomas's urgent, quicksilver prose makes even the darkest moments of this novel shine
O. The Oprah Magazine
Vivid, graphic and poignant
Washington Post
Powerful and moving... An impressive success
New York Times Book Review
O. The Oprah Magazine
Vivid, graphic and poignant
Washington Post
Powerful and moving... An impressive success
New York Times Book Review