ISBN: 9780755386246
Authors:
Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Headline
Date of Publication: 2011-06-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.11
(rated by 916996 readers)
Description
Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encountered the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, AMERICAN GODS takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what — and who — it finds there…‘This is a fantastic novel…runs as precisely as clockwork, but reads as smoothly as silk or warm chocolate’ Independent‘Here we have poignancy, terror, nobility, magic, sacrifice, wisdom, mystery, heartbreak, and a hard-earned sense of resolution — a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling’ Peter Straub‘Dark. fun and nourishing to the soul’ Michael ChabonThis is the author's preferred text.Includes extra material:* The Monarch of the Glen, an American Gods novella* Neil Gaiman's @SFXmagazine Twinterview
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