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 American gods :  [author's preferred text] /  Cover Image Book Book

American gods : [author's preferred text] / Neil Gaiman.

Gaiman, Neil. (Author).

Summary:

Upon his release from prison, a widower accepts a job as a bodyguard and joins the battle between the gods of yore and the neoteric gods of present-day America.
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. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same...

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062080233 (trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 522 p., 21 cm.
  • Edition: 10th anniversary ed.
  • Publisher: New York : William Morrow, 2013.

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General Note:
Author's preferred text.
"The version of American gods that you are holding is about twelve thousand words longer than the one that won all the awards, and it's the version of which I'm most proud of."--Note on text, p. xiv.
Includes author interview and reading group discussion questions.
Subject: National characteristics, American > Fiction.
Spiritual warfare > Fiction
Ex-convicts > Fiction
Bodyguards > Fiction
Widowers > Fiction
Genre: Fantasy fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.

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