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Michael Thomas

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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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Publisher
Atlantic Books Ltd
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780857895325
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Race and identityPoverty and class struggleFamily estrangementAddiction and recoveryAmerican Dream

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