Thomas, Michael - Man Gone Down
| Schrijver: | Thomas, Michael |
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| Titel: | Man Gone Down |
| ISBN: | 9781848872431 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Atlantic Books |
| Bijzonderheden: | 2009, paperback, shelf/user wear, 1st page removed, damped, fairly good copy |
| Prijs: | € 6,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 5,55 (binnen Nederland) |
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This book is 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.
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