American Gods

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  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2001)
  • Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002)
  • Nebula Award for Best Novel (2002)
  • Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2002)
  • International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)
  • World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2002)
  • SFX Award for Best Novel (2002)
  • Geffen Award (2003)
  • Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2002)
  • British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)
  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2003)
  • Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2003)
  • British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award) (2002)
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American Gods

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ISBN: 9780755386246
Authors: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Headline
Date of Publication: 2011-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Contemporary, Fantasy, Horror
Goodreads rating: 4.11
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Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encountered the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, AMERICAN GODS takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what — and who — it finds there…‘This is a fantastic novel…runs as precisely as clockwork, but reads as smoothly as silk or warm chocolate’ Independent‘Here we have poignancy, terror, nobility, magic, sacrifice, wisdom, mystery, heartbreak, and a hard-earned sense of resolution — a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling’ Peter Straub‘Dark. fun and nourishing to the soul’ Michael ChabonThis is the author's preferred text.Includes extra material:* The Monarch of the Glen, an American Gods novella* Neil Gaiman's @SFXmagazine Twinterview
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  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2001)
  • Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002)
  • Nebula Award for Best Novel (2002)
  • Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2002)
  • International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)
  • World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2002)
  • SFX Award for Best Novel (2002)
  • Geffen Award (2003)
  • Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2002)
  • British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)
  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2003)
  • Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2003)
  • British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award) (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.