![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fat Charlie is henpecked by his standoffish fiancée, despised by her monstrous mother, and mistreated by an evil boss (Gaiman creates villains with a glee that makes them outshine his virtuous characters) who winds up framing him for fraud. He is given a folkloric hint which summons his even more estranged, barely remembered brother, Spider, to pop up in his drab London life.Īt once African, American and British, Fat Charlie is the kind of lovable loser who often figures in comedy films, with the promise that his miseries in the first act will be compounded in the second only for everything to turn around at the end, leaving him deservedly happier. British-raised Fat Charlie Nancy attends the funeral in Florida of his estranged father, who stuck him with a nickname that has lingered even after he has grown out of chubbiness. This work, which seems to have grown from the seed of the pun in the title, deals with the African trickster figure of Anansi, at once an industrious spider and a human slacker. American Gods, Gaiman's previous novel, was rooted in Norse mythology. ![]()
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