Shadow is an ex-convict who is released from prison three days early when his wife Laura is killed in a car accident. Fuller and Green departed the show after the first season. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green served as showrunners, and Gaiman is an executive producer. In April 2017, Starz began airing a television adaptation of the novel. In March 2017, The Folio Society published a special collector's edition of American Gods, with many corrections to the author's preferred text version. Two audio versions of the book were produced and published by Harper Audio: an unabridged version of the original published edition, read by George Guidall, released in 2001 a full cast audiobook version of the tenth anniversary edition, released in 2011. Ī special tenth anniversary edition, which includes the 'author's preferred text' and 12,000 additional words, was published in June 2011 by William Morrow. It gained a positive critical response and won the 2002 Hugo and Nebula awards. The book was published in 2001 by Headline in the United Kingdom and by William Morrow in the United States. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow. “Mystery, satire, sex, horror, poetic prose-American Gods uses all these to keep the reader turning the pages.American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing-an epic war for the very soul of America-and that he is standing squarely in its path. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies. Life as Wednesday’s bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.īut just days before his release, Laura and Shadow’s best friend are killed in an accident. Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana.

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