Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1848872437
ISBN-13
9781848872431
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Imprint
Atlantic Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2009
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.10 x 4.30 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 1,750.00
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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.
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