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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... drove north for an hour and a half . It was getting late . He was hungry , and when he realized how hun- gry he really was , he pulled off at the next exit and drove into the town . of Nottamun ( pop . 1301 ) . He filled the gas tank at ...
... drove . He had a paper cup of coffee in the cup holder . They were heading along an interstate highway . The passenger seat was empty . " How are you feeling , this fine morning ? " asked Wednesday , with- out turning around . " What ...
... drove past the Muscle Farm . CLOSED INDEFINITELY , said the hand - lettered sign on the door , DUE TO BEREAVEMENT . Left on Main Street . Past a new tattoo parlor and the Armed Forces Recruitment Center , then the Burger King , and ...
... drove beside him at three miles an hour . Snowflakes danced in the beams of her headlights . " I thought she was my best friend , " said Audrey . " We'd talk every day . When Robbie and I had a fight , she'd be the first one to know- we ...
... drove off , quietly . Shadow was a couple of hundred yards away from his motel , and he walked there , breathing the cold air , past red and yellow and blue lights adver- tising every kind of fast food a man could imagine , as long as ...
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