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Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world.
<p>&#8220;Mystery, satire, sex, horror, poetic prose&#8230;.If you have enjoyed John Crowley&#8217;s <em>Little, Big</em> or Stephen King&#8217;s <em>The Stand</em> or the urbane horror fiction of Jonathan Carroll&#8230;then <em>American Gods</em> arrives just in time.&#8221;<br>&#8212;<em>Washington Post</em></p><p>&#8220;Dark fun, and nourishing to the soul.&#8221;<br>&#8212;Michael Chabon, author of <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</em></p><p>It has been a decade since #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Neil Gaiman (<em>Sandman, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book</em>) rocked the literary world with <em>American Gods</em>&#8212;his breathtaking tale of the war on Earth between old gods and new. For those who have yet to experience Gaiman&#8217;s bestselling tour de force&#8212;a novel <em>USA Today</em> called &#8220;a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not&#8221;&#8212;and for those eager to enter this astonishing world again, comes the Author&#8217;s Preferred Text 10th Anniversary Edition. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Bram Stoker Awards, with a special introduction by the author, this is <em>American Gods</em> as Neil Gaiman always meant it to be.<br></p>