Man Gone Down (international award winner)

Man Gone Down is the debut novel of U.S. author Michael Thomas (? - ). It is:

- Winner of the 2009 International Dublin/IMPAC Literary Award (a prize of €100,000)
- New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2007
- New York Times Notable Books of 2007
- San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007
- Spring/Summer 2008 Book Sense Best Reading Group title

The book was praised by the judges, who included James Ryan, for its "energy and warmth" and for being "tuned urgently to the way we live now".[1]

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. It focuses on an attempt to achieve the American Dream. Thomas describes Man Gone Down as having a "gallows humour".[2]

Man Gone Down: A Novel

[1] "Debut novel by US writer wins Impac". The Irish Times. 2009-06-11. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0611/breaking49.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
[2] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Gone_Down