Anansi Boys

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published September 2005 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-06-051518-8
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OCLC Number:
1401566996
ISFDB ID:
177551

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

When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Far 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 …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Fathers and sons in fiction
  • Brothers
  • Anansi (Legendary character)
  • Brothers in fiction
  • Fathers and sons
  • Adventure stories
  • Fiction, action & adventure
  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • Fiction, humorous
  • Brothers, fiction
  • Fathers and sons, fiction