American Gods

About this book

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 Erickson"American 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