Detailed item info | Synopsis | In a strange and wonderful science fiction tour-de-force that takes place in a contemporary America infested with strange and mythical beings, a recently released convict named Shadow accepts, perhaps unwisely, an ill-defined job from a mysterious man named Wednesday. He soon finds himself involved with ghosts, knights, and alternate planes of dimension as he is recruited into a battle, involving forces of myth and modernity, that he hardly understands. Winner of the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel as well as the 2002 Hugo and Nebula awards.
| | Size | | Length: | 608 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in. | | Width: | 5.5 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 17.3 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path. One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.
| | Industry reviews | "Gaiman's old fans will find it familiar but formidable, new readers will find it provocative but fun, and it bodes well for Gaiman's future that he's created a world where both can get along."
Entertainment Weekly - Jeff Jensen (07/13/2001)
"[A] noirish sci-fi road trip novel in which the melting pot of the United States extends not merely to mortals but to a motley assortment of disgruntled gods and deities....This might all sound like a bit much. But Gaiman [has] a deft hand with the mythologies he tinkers with here; even better, he's a fine, droll storyteller."
(07/29/2001)
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