Man Gone Down

There are maybe ten novels whose first reading gave me enough of a kick in the gut that I will always remember it, and this is one of them. I felt more affinity for the narrator than for any character I can recall in recent literature -- despite the fact that he is black and of the city and I'm a wh......more

I have never read anything like this novel. It has the meandering stream-of-consciousness and meticulous attention to detail of Virginia Woolf. It has the male obsessiveness with with masculinity and how it functions in time and place of James Joyce. It explores race with the rigour and nuance of a......more