num_pages: 635
description: Days before his release from prison Shadow's wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly he makes his way back home. On the plane he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday who claims to be a refugee from a distant war a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary gripping and deeply unsettling American Gods takes a long hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...
language: English
title: American Gods
publisher: William Morrow