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false <![CDATA[Man Gone Down]]> 79420 5 <div>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.</div> 76688 7 12 2006 Man Gone Down: A Novel total:460|5:61|4:153|3:143|2:73|1:30| 460 1522 1017 150 4 3 false false Wed Jan 09 13:08:09 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 17:44:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 20 17:41:56 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 18:01:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 02 09:11:07 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 23 06:59:29 -0700 2009
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Yet and still, there is something attractive about this book. The writing style is a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 18:59:20 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 18:59:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 08:37:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 08:44:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Feb 18 12:28:28 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:03:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 10:14:51 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 14:24:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 07:47:01 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 07:58:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Feb 22 14:20:35 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 14:29:45 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 06:14:33 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 05:51:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 20:00:49 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 08:19:16 -0700 2009
The protagonist is a black man, married to a white woman and dad to t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 13:02:14 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 14:56:40 -0700 2009 1 We follow him through 4 days where he tries to earn money for his children's tuition and a place to live and come to terms with his childhood with alcoholic and somewhat abusive parents - and...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Aug 17 18:05:19 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:16:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 14:41:30 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 05:15:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 30 08:27:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 08:34:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 10:54:33 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 02:42:22 -0700 2009
Because I should be, right? It's about an educated black writer who somehow went from being the newest test case in Boston's busing system to being a scholarship student at Harvard, and from there to being a drop-out (or kicked-out, as it we...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 12 09:37:25 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 09 08:56:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 15:31:11 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 15:32:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6589049