{"product_id":"man-gone-down-paperback","title":"Man Gone Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful and moving . . . [Thomas] knows how the odds are stacked in America.\"-Kaiama L. Glover, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(cover review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully written and devastating first novel, \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a young Black father in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream he has bargained on since youth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed Black narrator of \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Thomas's writing recalls some of the great American masters, including Ralph Ellison, but his debut is wholly and distinctly an original. \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling addition to the literature of and about America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of the Year, and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and in Ben George's anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dads\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a professor of English at Hunter College. He lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457786962227,"sku":"9780802170293","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/1WV6e3koe9780802170293.webp?v=1781272446","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/man-gone-down-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}