Man Gone Down: A Novel (edit title)

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Man Gone Down: A Novel Tuesday, November 24 2009.

• Added an award: International IMPAC Dublin literary award
• Added category of an award: International IMPAC Dublin literary award Best work of fiction published in English
• Added year of an award: International IMPAC Dublin literary award 2009

Shelfari edited the description of Man Gone Down: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.

• One of "The 10 Best Books of 2007"-- The New York Times Book Review 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Man Gone Down: A Novel Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Michael Thomas: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Man Gone Down: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• I know I'm not doing well.