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Zusatztext 68201669 Informationen zum Autor Michael Thomas is the author of the national bestseller Man Gone Down , winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year, and a memoir, The Broken King . His writing has appeared in A Public Space , New York Times , and in Ben George’s anthology The Book of Dads . He is a professor of English at Hunter College. He lives in Brooklyn. Klappentext On the eve of his 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 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. Zusammenfassung On the eve of his 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 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. ...
