Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: Book Author: Gaiman, Neil, author Title: American gods / Neil Gaiman. Publisher, Date: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2002. New York, NY : William Morrow, 2016. ©2011 Description: 592 pages ; 18 cm. xii, 750 pages ; 19 cm Subjects: National characteristics, American -- Fiction Spiritual warfare -- Fiction Ex-convicts -- Fiction Bodyguards -- Fiction Widowers -- Fiction Genre: Fantasy fiction Notes: Originally published ©2001. Tenth anniversay edition (author's preferred text) copyright ©2011. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. ISBN: 9780380789030 (paperback) 9780062472106 (paperback) System Availability: 14 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 14 Control Number: 1443523 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 9 # System items in: 9 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where is it?' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Summary 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... Suggestions and more Trade Reviews Booklist ReviewShadow, a strong, silent, Steven Seagal type, has kept his head down while doing time for creaming the guys who ran off with his share of a heist. He is about to be released, ticket home in hand, thanks to his lovely wife; then his departure is pushed up a few days--unhappily, so that he can attend her funeral. Weather forces his flight down in St. Louis, and he winds up on a short hop seated next to a mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who informs him that his once and, he had hoped, future boss is also dead. Would he like to work for Wednesday, instead? The guy is too creepy by half but, as it happens, hard to refuse. And after Shadow meets some of Wednesday's equally creepy friends, becomes an accomplice to a clever bank robbery, and gets coldcocked and kidnapped by black-clad heavies, he acquires a certain job loyalty, if only to find out what he has signed on for--an upcoming battle between the old gods of America's many immigrants' original cultures and the new gods of global, homogenizing consumerism. The old gods are trying to live peaceably enough in retirement, which is the predicament Wednesday (i.e., Wotan, or Odin) must overcome to rally them. After two sterling fantasies, the dark Neverwhere (1997) and the lighter, utterly charming Stardust (1999), Gaiman comes a cropper in a tale that is just too busy and, oddly for him, unengaging. His large fandom may make it a success, but many of them, even, will find it a chore to get through. --Ray Olson Map It First Chapter or Excerpt Fiction/Biography Profile Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
