American Gods: A NovelHarper Collins, 19.06.2001 - 480 Seiten 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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... , wondering what he was doing , where he would go now . Ghost images filled his head , unbidden . In his imagination he was leaving another prison , long ago . He had been imprisoned in a lightless room for far AMERICAN GODS 11.
... filled with brightly col- ored things , with people and with objects . It was a market day and he was dazzled by the noise and the color , squinting at the sunlight that filled the square , smelling the salt - wet air and all the good ...
... filled with fire . He opened his spit - flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him , under the earth . " Everything , " roared the buffalo man . The world tipped and spun , and Shadow was on the ...
... filled the gas tank at the Amoco and asked the bored woman at the cash register where he could get some- thing to eat . " Jack's Crocodile Bar , " she told him . " It's west on County Road N. " " Crocodile Bar ? " " Yeah . Jack says ...
... filled his mouth . " There , " said Mr. Wednesday . " You're my man , now . " " So , " said Sweeney , " you want to know the trick of how it's done ? ” " Yes , " said Shadow . " Were you loading them in your sleeve ? " " They were never ...
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