Shadow later tosses the coin into his wife's grave at her funeral, inadvertently bringing her back from the dead as a semi-living revenant. Shadow meets a leprechaun named Mad Sweeney, who gives Shadow a magical gold coin after Shadow beats him in a fight.

He takes a job as a bodyguard for a mysterious con man, Mr. Wednesday, and travels with him across the United States, visiting Wednesday's acquaintances. Shadow is devastated by her death, and is distraught to learn that she died alongside his best friend Robbie, with whom she had been having an affair. Shadow is an ex-convict who is released from prison three days early when his wife Laura is killed in a car accident. Fuller and Green departed the show after the first season. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green served as showrunners, and Gaiman is an executive producer. In April 2017, Starz began airing a television adaptation of the novel. In March 2017, The Folio Society published a special collector's edition of American Gods, with many corrections to the author's preferred text version. Two audio versions of the book were produced and published by Harper Audio: an unabridged version of the original published edition, read by George Guidall, released in 2001 a full cast audiobook version of the tenth anniversary edition, released in 2011. Ī special tenth anniversary edition, which includes the 'author's preferred text' and 12,000 additional words, was published in June 2011 by William Morrow. It gained a positive critical response and won the 2002 Hugo and Nebula awards.

The book was published in 2001 by Headline in the United Kingdom and by William Morrow in the United States. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow. American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman.

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