Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
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.
[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 *
Vivid, graphic and poignant * Washington Post *
Powerful and moving... An impressive success * New York Times Book Review *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848872431 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848872437 |
| Title | Man Gone Down |
| Author | Michael Thomas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2009-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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