American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
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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.
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Spiritual warfare, Widowers, Literature, award:hugo_award=2002, Ex-convicts, In library, Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, OverDrive, New York Times bestseller, American National characteristics, Protected DAISY, Bodyguards, Urban Fantasy, nyt:e-book_fiction=2012-01-14, award:hugo_award=novelShowing 10 featured editions. View all 71 editions?
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American Gods
2017, Headline
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American Gods
2016-09, William Morrow
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American Gods
2016-09, William Morrow
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American Gods
2009, HarperPerennial
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American Gods: The Author's Preferred Text
2005, Headline Review
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2005?, HarperTorch
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American Gods
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American Gods
2001-06, PerfectBound
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E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "On the Road to American Gods. "Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident.
Goodreads.com: After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the days, then the hours, then the minutes, then the seconds until his release tick away, he can feel a storm building. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in apparently adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr. Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But they are being pursued by someone with whom Shadow must make his peace... Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Neil Gaiman's epic new novel sees him on the road to finding the soul of America.
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