Man Gone Down

Man Gone Down  
Author(s) Michael Thomas
Original title Man Gone Down
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Grove Press
Publication date 2007
Pages 431
ISBN 0802170293
OCLC Number 74492272
Dewey Decimal 813/.6 22
LC Classification PS3620.H6352 M36 2007

Man Gone Down is the debut novel of U.S. author Michael Thomas. It won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, with Thomas receiving a prize of 100,000 (£85,000, US$140,000).[1][2][3] Man Gone Down is also recommended by The New York Times.[3][4]

Plot introduction

The novel is about an African-American man estranged from his white wife and their children, and who must come up with a sum of money within four days to have them returned.[2][5] It focuses on an attempt to achieve the American Dream.[3] Thomas describes Man Gone Down as having a "gallows humour".[3]

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