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Man Gone Down
Michael Thomas
出版
Atlantic Books Ltd
, 2011-03-01
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / African American & Black / General
ISBN
9780857895325
085789532X
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3549Z7QGufoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.