Man Gone Down
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2006
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (Verlag)
978-0-8021-7029-3 (ISBN)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (Verlag)
978-0-8021-7029-3 (ISBN)
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On 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 the kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them in which to live. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we learn of 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.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2007 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
ISBN-10 | 0-8021-7029-3 / 0802170293 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8021-7029-3 / 9780802170293 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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