Man Gone Down

by Thomas, Michael
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ISBN: 9780802170293
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Overview

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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Thomas, Michael
  • ISBN: 9780802170293
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 431
  • Publication Year: 2007

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