{"product_id":"man-gone-down","title":"Man Gone Down","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMan Gone Down\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichael Thomas\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802170293\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press, Black Cat\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eF First Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press, Black Cat","offers":[{"title":"Man Gone Down | Michael Thomas | Paperback | 9780802170293 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1673481","offer_id":50791260782850,"sku":"1673481","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61df8PFgbCL.jpg?v=1792332623","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/man-gone-down","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}