A masterful blend of fantasy, horror, Americana and mythology, American Gods is Neil Gaiman’s exhilarating and imaginative road trip epic, examining faith and mortality in the age of media obsession.
After three years in prison, Shadow is a man who has done his time. No longer afraid of what the future may bring, his only desire is to be reunited with his wife Laura and to start a new life. But just days before his release, Shadow’s best friend and Laura are killed in a car accident, leaving him lost and heartbroken. With his life in shambles and no plans for his future, Shadow accepts a job offer from Mr. Wednesday, a beguiling stranger he meets on his way home who seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself. Being Mr. Wednesday’s bodyguard, driver and errand boy proves more dangerous than Shadow could have ever imagined, taking him on a dark and strange road trip that introduces him to a host of eccentric characters whose fates seem mysteriously intertwined with his own.
Published on June 19, 2001, American Gods was hailed as an instant classic, showered with praise by critics and peers alike. Michael Chabon wrote, “American Gods manages to reinvent, and reassert, the enduring importance of fantastic literature itself in this late age of the world. Dark fun, and nourishing to the soul.” George R.R. Martin praised it as “original, engrossing and endlessly inventive.” Library Journal called it “compellingly imaginative,” while Amazon’s review raved, “American Gods is Neil Gaiman’s most ambitious novel yet. An outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of America’s obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what’s real and what’s not.”
In 2002, American Gods won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the Hugo Award, the SFX Award and Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. In 2017, it was adapted into an Emmy Award nominated television series.
Our edition of this modern day classic features the author’s preferred text, a previously published note and afterword by the author, and two sequel novellas, The Monarch of the Glen and Black Dog, making it the most complete edition to date.
The Classic edition is limited to 1250 copies. It is a quarter cloth, smyth-sewn binding with a foil blocked embossed paper cover, and a dust jacket featuring gold foil accents. The cloth is Dubletta, a woven cotton fabric with a subtle duo-tone effect. Endsheets are Takeo Tant Select, a unique double-sided embossed paper. The edition is printed letterpress on premium Munken Print and is housed in a slipcase wrapped in Takeo Tant Select with ends capped in black cloth. The book is bound by Garry Phipps and his team at Green Street Bindery in Oxford, United Kingdom. The Classic edition is published as a single volume and is signed by Neil Gaiman and Yoann Lossel.
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