Neil Gaiman – American Gods

ISBN: 0755322819

Gaiman’s American Gods- What an engrossing read! Something I can’t quite identify about the ‘flavour’ of this book…reminds me of a combination of Beckett, Sachar and even- maybe expecially Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Intertextual vitality plus plus!

Pathos and the surreal…a very tenacious narrative with Shadow the hero and then Mr Wednesday the completely ambivalent ‘boss’ who is part ‘boss’ aka Gangsta, part Mephistopheles….how unhomely is home…!!!

The USA’s landscape is transformed…part of me expects John Connelly’s predilection for the grotesque and then part seems Alice in Wonderland meets Steinbeck….Freudian maybe…or is it all illusion and game?

I am really enjoying the narrative and makes me laugh out loud and then grimace too…lively, stylish and brimming over with wonders and signs!

Reviewed By: Janet Lewison

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