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Rent American Gods
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: May 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 592
Synopsis
A recently released convict accepts, perhaps unwisely, an ill-defined job from a strange man named Wednesday and soon finds himself involved with ghosts, knights, and alternate planes of dimension. Winner of the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
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Reviews
On the surface, Gaiman's novel appears to be modeled on the myths and stories of gods and goddesses, albeit set in contemporary America with the hero serving as a vehicle to explore this world. However, as this mythical world is explored, the metaphysical underbelly of America is revealed as well. Although it is a surprising treatise on certain qualities of America, such as its history of immigration of people and their ideas, diversity of culture and the innate wildness of the New World, it is also a contemplative journey of fantasy. Gaiman's novel reads much like a road trip of both literal and metaphorical natures, accompanied by the subtle transformation of the reader and the hero.