American Gods

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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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…<br/><br/>‘This is a fantastic novel…runs as precisely as clockwork, but reads as smoothly as silk or warm chocolate’ Independent<br/><br/>‘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<br/><br/>‘Dark. fun and nourishing to the soul’ Michael Chabon<br/><br/>This is the author's preferred text.<br/><br/>Includes extra material:<br/>* The Monarch of the Glen, an American Gods novella<br/>* Neil Gaiman's @SFXmagazine Twinterview