American Gods : Author's Preferred Text
(Book)

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2011 by William Morrow.

Includes "Twenty years of American Gods: A Preface;" "An introduction to the tenth anniversary edition;" "A note on the text;" "Caveat, and warning for travelers;" "An interview with Neil Gaiman;" "Reading group discussion questions;" and "How dare you?"

"After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the days, then the hours, then the hours, then the seconds until his release tick away, he can feel a storm building. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in apparently adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But they are being pursued by someone with whom Shadow must make his peace ... Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Neil Gaiman's epic ... novel sees him on the road to finding the soul of America"--FantasticFiction.com