Anansi Boys

NEIL GAIMAN is the critically acclaimed and award-winning creator of the Sandman series of graphic novels, and author of the novels American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust, and Coraline; the short fiction collection Smoke and Mirrors; and the New York Times bestselling children�s books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls (both illustrated by Dave McKean). His most recent book, written with and illustrated by Dave McKean, is MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from The Jim Henson Company. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.

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ALSO BY

NEIL GAIMAN

MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from

The Jim Henson Company (with Dave McKean)

The Alchemy of MirrorMask (by Dave McKean; commentary by Neil Gaiman)

American Gods

Stardust

Smoke and Mirrors

Neverwhere

Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)

FOR YOUNG READERS

(illustrated by Dave McKean)

MirrorMask (with Dave McKean)

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish

The Wolves in the Walls

Coraline

CREDITS

Jacket design by Richard Aquan

Jacket collage from Getty Images

COPYRIGHT

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following copyrighted material:

“Some of These Days” used by permission, Jerry Vogel Music Company, Inc.

Spider drawing on page 334 © by Neil Gaiman. All rights reserved.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author�s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

ANANSI BOYS. Copyright© 2005 by Neil Gaiman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Epub Edition © AUGUST 2005 ISBN: 9780061794971

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