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Man Gone Down

Man Gone Down

Man Gone Down
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Man Gone Down Paperback - 2006

by Thomas, Michael

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  • Title Man Gone Down
  • Author Thomas, Michael
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, New York
  • Publication date 2006-12-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2497399-6
  • ISBN 9780802170293 / 0802170293
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects African American men, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006050884
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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Summary

The novel is about an African-American man estranged from his white wife and their children, and who must come up with a sum of money within four days to have them returned.[5][2] It focuses on an attempt to achieve the American Dream.[3] Thomas describes Man Gone Down as having a "gallows humour".[3]

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From the publisher

"Powerful and moving . . . [Thomas] knows how the odds are stacked in America."-Kaiama L. Glover, New York Times Book Review (cover review)

A beautifully written and devastating first novel, Man Gone Down is the story of a young Black father in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream he has bargained on since youth

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's writing recalls some of the great American masters, including Ralph Ellison, but his debut is wholly and distinctly an original. Man Gone Down is a dazzling addition to the literature of and about America today.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2006, Page 30
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2006, Page 928
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2006, Page 56
  • New York Times, 02/04/2007, Page 1
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2007, Page 12
  • People Weekly, 03/05/2007, Page 50
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/09/2006, Page 34

About the author

Michael Thomas is the author of the national bestseller Man Gone Down, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year, and a memoir, The Broken King. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, New York Times, and in Ben George's anthology The Book of Dads. He is a professor of English at Hunter College. He lives in Brooklyn.

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