Summary
THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND COMPANION NOVEL TO AMERICAN GODS.
‘Neil could never have known that he was writing for a confused Jamaican kid who, without even knowing it, was still staggering from centuries of erasure of his own gods and monsters’ MARLON JAMES
‘A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story about the impossibility of putting up with your relations - especially if they happen to be Gods’ SUSANNA CLARKE
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755305094 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755305094 |
| Author: | Neil Gaiman |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 34mm |
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A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story… Anansi Boys combines the anarchy of Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of spirit - Susanna Clarke
‘A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story about the impossibility of putting up with your relations - especially if they happen to be Gods. Anansi Boys combines the anarchy of Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of spirit. Guaranteed to make all but the most committed arachnophobe feel gratefully towards spiders’ Susanna Clarke - Susanna ClarkeThe author…gives us powerful deities - Anansi is as charming and dangerous as he ought to be… A thoughtful, atmospheric novel - The TimesAs imaginative fiction goes it has become clear that Gaiman has long since left any box. His credentials as a bankable novelist have grown with each title…from his epic of warring divinities, AMERICAN GODS, to ANANSI BOYS, which debuted at number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. - Time, AustraliaMixing farce and fantasy, epic mythology and domestic drama, Gaiman’s novel is a clever piece of storytelling and a celebration of the magic of make-believe. - Independent on Sunday‘Whizzing, twirling, erupting into dazzling cartwheels, firing off showers of multi-colored sparks, chortling to itself and muttering killer-diller one-liners, ANANSI BOYS draws the reader, ever more wide-eyed and amazed, into a world both feather-light and chockablock with mortal danger. Only Neil Gaiman could have brought this fraught enchantment into being, and the ongoing, ultimately revelatory travails of Fat Charlie Nancy display Gaiman’s remarkable imaginative powers at full stretch. This book is going to sail off the shelves’ Peter Straub - Peter Straub‘Neil Gaiman is one of the few genuinely intelligent writers of what is generally described as ‘post-modern’ fiction - his work is thoughtful, wise, spiritually challenging and incredibly funny…From Gaiman, it’s a treasure, every word. I can’t imagine a better way to start a holiday’ Manda Scott, Church of England Newspaper, 22 July 2005 - Manda Scott, Church of England Newspaper‘Brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic’ Publishers Weekly, 18/7/05 - Publishers WeeklyAbout The Author
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman was born in England but now lives in Minnesota, in a big house of uncertain location where he accumulates computers and cats.
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