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02591aam a22004098i 4500 001 4C5033703F7E11E78C4957BEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170523010210 008 170221r20172017meu d 000 0 eng 010 $a 2017002602 020 $a 1410499499 020 $a 9781410499493 035 $a (OCoLC)971508785 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d ORX $d GO3 $d IK2 $d OJ4 $d JIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ev----- 100 1 $a Gaiman, Neil. 245 10 $a Norse mythology / $c Neil Gaiman. 250 $a Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 331 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a Having already appropriated Odin and Loki for his novel American Gods, Gaiman turns his restless imagination to a retelling of Norse folklore (a youthful interest of his). He begins by introducing us to the three main mythological figures: Odin, the highest and oldest of the gods; his son, Thor, who makes up in brawn what he lacks in brains; and Loki, offspring of giants and a wily trickster. In a series of stories, we learn how Thor acquired his famous hammer, Mjollnir, how Odin tricked a giant into building a wall around Asgard, the home of the gods, how Loki helped Thor retrieve his hammer from the ogre that had stolen it, and how a visit to the land of the giants resulted in the humbling of Thor and Loki. In most of the stories, a consistent dynamic rules as one god tries to get something over on another god, but novelist that he is, Gaiman also provides a dramatic continuity to these stories that takes us from the birth of the gods to their blood-soaked twilight. Employing dialogue that is anachronistically current in nature, Gaiman has great fun in bringing these gods down to a human level. Like John Gardner in Grendel, a classic retelling of Beowulf, and Philip Pullman in his rewriting of Hans Christian Andersen stories, Gaiman takes a well-worn subject and makes it his own. 650 0 $a Mythology, Norse. 941 $a 10 945 $a lpt 952 $l RNPC397 $d 20230805012334.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013017.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722054241.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20190814045444.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20190105011137.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107034714.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045827.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20170927010746.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20170602011340.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170523021708.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4C5033703F7E11E78C4957BEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search