# Man Gone Down

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- Authors: [Michael D. Thomas](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-d-thomas)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-04-01

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Man Gone Down

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-243-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-04-01
- Language: en_GB