American Gods

Folio Press London, 2017 Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive, a picaresque journey across America where the travelers are even stranger than the roadside attractions George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones author) Winner of multiple awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula, American Gods is Neil Gaimans sweeping exploration of story, myth and the shifting nature of belief itself. According to Mr Wednesday, gods travelled to the new world with their immigrant worshippers only to flounder in a land both too strange and too modern to nurture them. Although the story is rooted in the familiar - Gaiman gives us Egyptian deities who run funeral parlours, and gods who drive cabs to make a living - it tears back the veil to reveal the pulsing supernatural heart of America. Crammed with unconventional yet wholly engaging characters, this story of coin tricks, cons and misdirection is considered by many to be Gaimans masterpiece. Bound in cloth blocked with a design by the artist. Frontispiece and 11 colour illustrations, including 3 double-page spreads. Printed slipcase. People ask me who my favourite artist is, to work with. Ive worked with world-class artists, after all, heaps of them. World-class people. And when they ask me about my favourite, I say Dave McKean Neil Gaiman. Award-winning artist and illustrator Dave McKean first worked with Gaiman on the graphic novel Violent Cases before going on to work with him again on Sandman, a comic book series that revolutionised the form. Like Gaimans stories, McKeans multimedia pieces, with their layered meanings and half-monstrous creatures, capture the uneasy relationship between the real and the unreal. Now a legendary creative team, Gaiman and McKean have joined forces on several celebrated projects, including illustrated editions of The Graveyard Book and Coraline. For this special collectors edition, the only colour illustrated hardback volume currently available, McKean has created 12 extraordinary illustrations, including three double-page spreads and a frontispiece, as well as designs for the binding and slipcase that complement and mirror each other. A STUNNING SPECIAL EDITION, contained in a superb slipcase, with an afterword by the author. NEW UNREAD FIRST PRINTING Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. New.