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Man Gone Down Main Edition
Author(s): Michael Thomas (Author)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication Date: 1 April 2009
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848872437
- ISBN-13: 9781848872431
Book Description
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.
