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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman |
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William Morrow & Co. , 2001 Headline Publishing Group, 2001 |
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2001 BSFA Nominated 2002 Hugo Winner 2002 Locus F Winner 2002 Nebula Winner 2002 BFS Nominated 2002 WFA Nominated |
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The ISFDB Top 100 Books (Balanced List) WWEnd Top Nominated Books of All-Time |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Mythic Fiction (Fantasy) Contemporary Fantasy Fantasy |
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   (95 reads / 74 ratings)
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Synopsis
The storm was coming....
Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place.
On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue, Wednesday offers Shadow a job. And Shadow, a man with nothing to lose, accepts.
But working for the enigmatic Wednesday is not without its price, and Shadow soon learns that his role in Wednesday's schemes will be far more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. Entangled in a world of secrets, he embarks on a wild road trip and encounters, among others, the murderous Czernobog, the impish Mr. Nancy, and the beautiful Easter -- all of whom seem to know more about Shadow than he himself does.
Shadow will learn that the past does not die, that everyone, including his late wife, had secrets, and that the stakes are higher than anyone could have imagined.
All around them a storm of epic proportions threatens to break. Soon Shadow and Wednesday will be swept up into a conflict as old as humanity itself. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought -- and the prize is the very soul of America.
As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, this work of literary magic will haunt the reader far beyond the final page.
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Quadrinista, Ficcionista, Roteirista e um cara o qual o Factóide é descaradamente muito fã, Neil Gaiman é responsável pela série de quadrinhos Sandman, por livros que são verdadeiras obras primas como Deuses Americanos e Belas Maldições ( que já teve post nos primórdios do blog) e seus trabalhos mais conhecidos no cinema são Stardust, Coraline e Beowulf. Em 2006, Tori Amos reuniu um grupo de artístas e fez um tributo ... ThouShaltNot – When Everyone Forgets (American Gods) ... - Have to Blog: Music Dump
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One of my favorite authors is Neil Gaiman, who started out as a comic books writer and moved on to writing novels. His best work in comics was done in The Sandman series, which is epic and rich and I'm not going into it here, ... - Neil Gaiman: Back To Blogging | Disinformation
American Gods is a way more deserving title to be turned into a movie than Anansi Boys. I don't really care about the passing 3D fad, but if anyone could make me it would be Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. MirrorMask was fantastic on ... - Neil Gaiman scripting Anansi Boys film | PUNCH DRUNK CRITICS
It's something of a follow-up to American Gods, which featured a war between the old and modern gods. Back in April, Gaiman had tweeted that he was working on an Anansi Boys script, but he had no idea whether it would be for TV or film. ... - Bag O' Books: "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
But maybe I'm expecting too much. "American Gods" is reasonably diverting, so long as Neil Gaiman's reputation hasn't been oversold to you. And better an novel of incomplete ideas than no ideas at all. - Read Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' For Worldwide 'One Book, One ...
In the lead for quite a while was Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451, but then up came Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel American Gods for the win. So, starting today, pick up your copy and read along with the world, then tweet about ... - Neil Gaiman | Books | Primer | The A.V. Club
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