Anansi Boys

Author: Neil Gaiman

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  • : 9780755305094
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  • : March 2006
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Barcode 9780755305094
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Description

If you need him, just tell a spider. He'll come running.


Fat Charlie Nancy used to have a normal life. But that all changes the moment his estranged father drops dead in a karaoke bar, leaving a trail of chaos in his wake. Fat Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. He certainly didn't know he was Anansi the trickster spider-god, lord of rebellion and disorder. He didn't know he had a brother, either. Now his brother, Spider, is on his doorstep trying to take over his life, flat and fiancé. And Fat Charlie's going to have to resort to something drastic - and dangerous - to get back on track.


Soon to be a British television miniseries.

Promotion info

Bursting with imaginative power, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama

Reviews

'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


'The author...gives us powerful deities - Anansi is as charming and dangerous as he ought to be! A thoughtful, atmospheric novel' -- The Times


'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


'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.

Author description

Neil Gaiman was born in England but now lives in Minnesota, in a big house of uncertain location where he accumulates computers and cats.