American Gods读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 480页 | 8.3 | 2020 | William Morrow |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26.99美元 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-03-06 … | 16 |
American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton, Amazon.com
作者简介尼尔·盖曼是当今最重要的畅销漫画家，幻想小说作家，被《文学传记辞典》（Dictionary of Literary Biography）誉为十大后现代作家之一。他是记者、诗人、词作者、影视编剧、制片人和导演。他是生活在明尼苏达州某所歌德式宅院中的英国人；是顶着一头黑色乱发、只穿黑色阿玛尼、喜欢戴墨镜的英俊男子；是妻子的丈夫，三个孩子的父亲和七只猫的主人。
盖曼1960年11月10日生，出生在英国汉普郡。尽管有犹太血统，但他却在几所英国国教学校就读，学习普通课程和宗教科目，这为他打下了广博的神学和宗教学基础，也成为日后的创作源泉之一。
成长在拥有独特幽默感和浓郁魔幻氛围的英国，盖曼不可救药地喜欢上了J·R·R·托尔金和C·S·刘易斯笔下的奇幻世界，进而又成为铁杆科幻迷。和许多热爱书籍的孩子一样，他有着成为作家的梦想；但也和许多孩子一样，他在很长时间里都...
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