Man Gone Down
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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.
Specificaties
- Aantal pagina's
- 448
- Auteur
- Michael Thomas
- Breedte (mm)
- 129
- Druk
- Main
- Gewicht (g)
- 414
- Hoogte (mm)
- 32
- Lengte (mm)
- 198
- NUR-code
- 300
- Taal
- en
- Uitgever
- Atlantic Books
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Verschijningsjaar
- 2009
- ISBN
- 9781848872431
Artikelnummer: 9781848872431