American Gods: A Novel

ISBN: 0063081911

Author: Gaiman, Neil

Condition: New

From #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman, a contemporary masterpiece combing mythology,adventure, and illusion-one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegantoriginal watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene YeeReleased fromprison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a stranger offers him ajob and Shadow, with nothing to lose, accepts. But a storm is coming. Beneath the placid surface ofeveryday life, a war is being fought - and the prize is the very soul ofAmerica.An inspired combination of mythology,adventure, and illusion, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across anAmerica at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, acontemporary masterpiece.Piercingly observed, jaggedlypoetic, ruthlessly cutting a path through graveyards of dead stars and deadmoney and dead feelings, this novel is the map back to dawn. - Steve EricksonAmerican Gods manages to reinvent, and reassert, the enduringimportance of fantastic literature itself in this late age of the world. Darkfun, and nourishing to the soul. - MichaelChabon