American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Neil Gaiman Narrated by Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, Full Cast

Overview

Now a STARZ® Original Series produced by FremantleMedia North America starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber.

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.

But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.

Life as Wednesday's bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies . . . and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing-an epic war for the very soul of America-and that he is standing squarely in its path.

“Mystery, satire, sex, horror, poetic prose-American Gods*uses all these to keep the reader turning the pages.”-Washington Post

Editorial Reviews

First published in June 2001, Neil Gaiman's American Gods garnered both Hugo and Nebula Awards. In the decade since, this novel about one man's part in a cosmic battle of the deities has sold more than one million copies. For the tenth anniversary edition of this classic, author Gaiman now adds the final touches of a new introduction and his own preferred text. A must-have for serious genre collectors.

Library Journal

More than a million copies of this novel have been sold in three formats in this country alone, and upon publication it won the Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker, and SFX awards. So why a new edition? There's a new introduction, the author's "preferred" text—that is, the text before it got edited, with Gaiman's original language sprinkled throughout—and a bonus scene. This would seem like a natural for many collections, especially where the original is worn out, so I find the 50,000-copy first printing a little low.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170063673
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/21/2011
Series:	American Gods , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	463,287

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