American Gods - Rilegato

Gaiman, Neil

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ISBN 10: 0747274231 ISBN 13: 9780747274230

Casa editrice: Headline Feature, 2001

Riassunto

After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the days, then the hours, then the seconds until his release tick away, he can feel a storm building. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in apparently adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But they are being pursued by someone with whom Shadow must make his peace...Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Neil Gaiman's epic new novel sees him on the road to finding the soul of America.

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Recensione:

'For sheer ambition, erudition and imagination, this takes some beating' Big Issue (Big Issue)

'A jaw-droppingly good, scary epic positively drenched in metaphors and symbols' Midweek (Midweek)

'A surreal road trip that seems to be part Jack Kerouac, part Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' Birmingham Post (Birmingham Post)

'They don't come much better than this. Really. And the magic of Neil Gaiman's novels leave you feeling almost light-headed, as though all the wonders of his stories are as real as night and day... Combines fantastical figures with human heroes and once again proves Gaiman to be one of the leading writers of fiction and mythology' Punch (Punch)

'...something approaching a noir masterpiece, part Jim Thompson, part David Lynch, with a pinch of Philip K Dick' W Magazine (W Magazine)

'AMERICAN GODS is some kind of miracle. Neil Gaiman has managed to tell the tallest of tales in the most heart rending and believable fashion, despite the story's truly mythic scale. It is an important, essential book. As Pablo Neruda once said of another world class novel, not to read it is the same as never having tasted an orange' Jonathan Carroll

'From his first collection of short stories, Neil Gaiman has always been a remarkable, remarkably gifted writer, but AMERICAN GODS is the first of his fictions to match, even surpass, the breathtaking imaginative sweep and suggestiveness of his classic SANDMAN series of graphic novels. Here we have poignancy, terror, nobility, magic, sacrifice, wisdom, mystery, heartbreak, and a hardearned sense of resolution - a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling' Peter Straub

'Neil Gaiman, a writer of rare perception and endless imagination, has long been an English treasure; and is now an American treasure as well' William Gibson

'There's no one quite like Neil Gaiman. AMERICAN GODS is Gaiman at the top of his game, original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive, a picaresque journey across America where the travellers are even stranger than the roadside attractions' George R R Martin

'You long for writers like Neil Gaiman, his vision is so personal and idiosyncratic. And unexpected, like the writer himself. An Englishman living in America, he explores the contradictions with a light all his own' Chris Carter, creator of The X Files

Descrizione del libro:

The long-awaited and extraordinary epic new novel from a storytelling genius.

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• Editore: Headline Feature
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0747274231
• ISBN 13: 9780747274230
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512