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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition
Author’s Preferred Text
Neil Gaiman
Dedication
FOR ABSENT FRIENDS

—
Kathy Acker and
Roger Zelazny,
and all points between
Contents
Dedication
An Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
A Note on the Text
Caveat, and Warning for Travelers
Epigraph
Part One: Shadows
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Part Two: My Ainsel
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Part Three: The Moment of the Storm
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Part Four: Epilogue: Something That the Dead Are Keeping Back
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Excerpt from The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Prologue
I.
II.
An Interview with Neil Gaiman
Reading Group Discussion Questions
How Dare You?
Also by Neil Gaiman
Copyright
About the Publisher
An Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
I

don’t know what it’s like to read this book. I only know what it was like to live the writing of it.
I moved to America in 1992. Something started, in the back of my head. There were unrelated ideas that I knew were important and yet seemed unconnected: two men meeting on a plane; the car on the ice; the significance of coin tricks; and more than anything, America: this strange, huge place where I now found myself living that I knew I didn’t understand. But I wanted to understand it. More than that, I wanted to describe it.
And then, during a stopover in Iceland I stared at a tourist diorama of the travels of Leif Erickson, and it all came together. I wrote a letter to my agent and my editor that explained what the book would be. I wrote “American Gods” at the top of the letter, certain I could come up with a better title.
A couple of weeks later, my editor sent me a mock-up of the book cover. It showed a road, and a lightning strike, and, at the top, it said, “American Gods.” It seemed to be the cover of the book I had planned to write.
I found it both off-putting and exhilarating to have the cover before the book. I put it up on the wall and looked at it, intimidated, all thoughts of ever finding another title gone forever. This was the book cover. This was the book.
Now I just had to write it.
I wrote the first chapter on a train journey from Chicago to San Diego. And I kept traveling, and I kept writing. I drove from ............

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