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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Grove Press, Black Cat
Manufacturer: Grove Press, Black Cat
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: December 07, 2006
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Sales Rank: 61822
Studio: Grove Press, Black Cat
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Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged from his white Boston Brahmin wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. With only four days before he’s due in to pick up his family, he must make some sense out of his life. Alternating between his past—as an inner city child bused to the suburbs in the 1970’s—and a present where he is trying mightily to keep his children in private schools, we learn of his mother’s abuses, his father’s abandonment, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is an extraordinary debut about what it feels like to be pre-programmed to fail in life—and the urge to escape that sentence.
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I started "Man Gone Down" with high hopes. The plot sounded interesting. The book started off good, but went downhill. Boring. There were moments here and there where things seemed like they would pick up, but didn't. As a whole, this book did not hold my interest.
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This first novel beats anything written the same year. I couldn't put it down until I had read it twice. It's one of the most observant pieces in years. You look through the eyes of the narrator and see a world you can't see any other way. Go to a coffee shop, or go to work, or get drunk on a beach--and then read what happens along the way to the end. A sharply structured piece of work, it could teach other aspiring first novelists a few lessons in craftsmanship. MAN GONE DOWN should be on every ... Read More
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I really hated this book. Yes, this guy is down on his luck, but he has so many good things going for him that he doesn't see. I got really tired of him shrugging, not answering questions directed at him., etc. I had to read it to the end just to see if anything happened, which nothing ever did. Awful.
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Do you want to spend 400-plus pages with a self-obsessed, self-loathing and incredibly bitter unnamed narrator? It's a tough task but the raw, rambling, stream-of-conscious rant "Man Gone Down" rewards readers who stick it out to the end. Centered around a self-described "black Irish Indian" filled with a "black-iron locomotive" of rage, the story reads more like an extended journal entry or perhaps a bizarre revenge fantasy for real and perceived slights than a conventional novel with a narrative ... Read More
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I read this book very slowly, because sometimes it was just too painful. Michael Thomas takes you under the brown skin of a young man separated from his white wife and three children while trying to earn enough money for rent on an apartment and the private school tuition his wife expects. Its stream of conscious narration is very ambitious. Sometimes, he seems to channel Ellison's Invisible Man or Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, but you know it's present-day by the cultural references. ... Read More
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