Book Spotlight and Giveaway: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Newly updated and expanded with the author’s preferred text. A modern masterpiece from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman.
First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic, lauded for its brilliant synthesis of “mystery, satire, sex, horror, and poetic prose” (Washington Post) and as a modern phantasmagoria that “distills the essence of America” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). It is the story of Shadow—released from prison just days after his wife and best friend are killed in an accident—who gets recruited to be bodyguard, driver, and errand boy for the enigmatic trickster, Mr. Wednesday. So begins Shadow’s dark and strange road trip, one that introduces him to a host of eccentric characters whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with his own. For, beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a storm is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and Shadow is standing squarely in its path.
comic, often scary, consistently moving and provocative….American Gods is strewn with secrets and magical visions.”—USA Today
inventive.”—George R. R. Martin
Neil Gaiman is the New
York Times bestselling author of the novels Neverwhere,
Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with
Terry Pratchett), The Ocean at the End of the Lane,
and The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains; the
Sandman series of graphic novels; and the story collections Smoke
and Mirrors, Fragile Things, and Trigger
Warning. He is the winner of numerous literary honors, including
the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, and the Newbery and Carnegie
Medals. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States. He is
Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
