""On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his family, 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 ..."--Publisher."
"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 Americ."@en
"A novel about a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American dream."
"A novel about a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American dream."@en
"Een 35-jarige zwarte Amerikaan die aan de grond zit (zijn schrijverscarrière wil niet vlotten, zijn vrouw en kinderen wonen bij zijn schoonmoeder, en hij moet in vier dagen 12.000 dollar ophoesten) overdenkt hoe dat zo gekomen is."