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Anansi Boys

A Novel

By Neil Gaiman

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| Hardcover | 9780060515188

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One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.

Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids. Continue

One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.

Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.

When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.

Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.

Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.

Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."

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  • "Anansi Boys"

    (Reviewed by Judi Clark OCT 30, 2005) "Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

    "Mr. Gaiman's fans will take immense delight in his latest wild thriller." The West African spider-trickster god Anansi in an incarnation as Mr. Nancy has died and was buried in Florida. He left behind an adult son Fat Charlie in England. Ironically ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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    A new twist on African Folklore

    I thought Gaiman's American Gods was a better story within the same vein. However, if you know a bit about African folklore or are interesting in it, this book has an "inventive" take on them and was entertaining.

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    CurlGirl said on Jul 29, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Qué decir de este autor que no esté ya dicho, requetedicho y más bien manido. La trmaa es sugerente y seduce como la tela de araña, la insípida existencia de Gordo Charlie se ve trastocada debido al destino familiar al cual va ligada su propia vida. Si provienes de una familia tan atípica, no puedes ... (continue)

    Qué decir de este autor que no esté ya dicho, requetedicho y más bien manido. La trmaa es sugerente y seduce como la tela de araña, la insípida existencia de Gordo Charlie se ve trastocada debido al destino familiar al cual va ligada su propia vida. Si provienes de una familia tan atípica, no puedes pretender ser un ser normal. Su padre, Anansi, nada más y nada menos que el dios araña.
    Es cierto que hay otras obras suyas que me han gustado más, muchos de sus seguidores aférrimos tachan a esta obra de ser cansina y de que Gayman explota lo inexplotable, en cuanto que incluso es de peor calidad de lo que nos tiene acostumbrados, pero a mí me ha gustado quizás porque no he leído American Gods.

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    Leanan said on Jan 31, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

  • Gods and mortals, mortals and Gods. How much longer can he write about the same things over and over?

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    Howtired said on May 23, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Is a pleasant and amusing read. I may have rated it higher if I hadn’t previously read Gaiman’s American Gods, in which I was delighted by Gaiman’s blend of myth, magic and reality. I was somehow hoping for more of the same, but Anansi Boys fell short of his earlier work.

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    mlbleichwehl said on Mar 11, 2011 | Add your feedback

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