Man Gone Down
1st Edition
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802170293 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Black Cat |
Pub date: | 18 Jan 2007 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
DEWEY: | 813.6 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 431 |
Weight: | 408g |
Height: | 208mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 30mm |