Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
This book is an extraordinary debut that tackles race, wealth and family head on as a young black man finds the American Dream dissolving around him.
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 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: Paperback | 448 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8 x 3.1 | 504g -
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 1848872437
ISBN13: 9781848872431
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including minor scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.