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From bestselling author neal stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and. The ending of american gods is not what i expected at all. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or. For fans of the book of dust and mythos by stephen fry. Stephenson, neal anathem cryptonomicon snow crash the baroque cycle. Gaiman has managed to tell the tallest of tales in the most heartrending and believable fashion, despite the storys truly mythic scale. Paperback published in 2005, kindle edition published in 2011, 0380789035 mass market paperback published in 2002, kin. Here, poor thing, she said, and pushed a fiftypence. With american gods, neil gaiman shows that he is a first class author. Adult, fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mythology pages. American gods 2001 is a fantasy novel by british author neil gaiman. Do you wish he had revealed the identity of the forgotten god.
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