Winner of the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas. One of the Ten Best Books of the Year - The New York Times Book Review 'Vivid, graphic and poignant'Washington Post'Powerful and moving . . . An impressive success'New York Times Book Review'[A] jazzy, sinewy debut . . . Thomas's urgent, quicksilver prose makes even the darkest moments of this novel shine'O' the Oprah MagazineOn 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 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 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Atlantic Books
ISBN-13
9781848872431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94421684
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Gone Down
Author
Michael Thomas
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
True Stories, Literature, Books
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
414g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael Thomas
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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