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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Man Gone Down
• Author: Michael Thomas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9781848872431
• ISBN: 1848872437
• ID: 04292745
• Publisher: ATBO
• Weight: 416 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 131 × 43 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2009

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