(W) Neil Gaiman The author's preferred text is presented in this 10th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times-bestselling tour-de-force that USA Today called 'a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not.' Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a .