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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... night half - awake , drifting in and out of sleep , lis- tening to his new cellmate grunt and snore in the bunk below him . Several cells away a man whined and howled and sobbed like an ani- mal , and from time to time someone would ...
... night that night , and she had tasted like . strawberry daiquiris , and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again . A woman announced that his plane was boarding , and Shadow's row was the first to be called . He was in the very ...
... night . After the fight . " Conversations from the night before began to jostle uncomfortably in Shadow's head . " You got anymore of that coffee ? " The big man reached beneath the passenger seat and passed back an unopened bottle of ...
... the gold coins ? " " Oh , yes . " " I can't remember . " " It'll come back . It was a long night . " Several small snowflakes brushed the windshield , melting in seconds . " Your wife's body is on display at Wendell's Funeral 36 NEIL ...
... night , Laura . " Then he said , " I'm sorry . " He turned his face toward the lights of the town , and began to walk back into Eagle Point . His motel was a good two miles away , but after spending three years in prison he was ...
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