A Wild Sheep ChaseIt begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. |
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... dark and damp , and a traffic jam stretched for several miles on the eastbound lanes of the elevated expressway . As I stared out long and hard , things began to melt in the rain . In fact , everything in town was melting . The ...
... dark and damp , and a traffic jam stretched for several miles on the eastbound lanes of the elevated expressway . As I stared out long and hard , things began to melt in the rain . In fact , everything in town was melting . The ...
Page 162
... dark again and the coming attrac- tions began , I brushed her hair aside and kissed her ear . " It's all right . Don ... darkness . Her head resting on my shoulder the whole time . My shoulder became warm and damp from her breath . We ...
... dark again and the coming attrac- tions began , I brushed her hair aside and kissed her ear . " It's all right . Don ... darkness . Her head resting on my shoulder the whole time . My shoulder became warm and damp from her breath . We ...
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... dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places - dissolved and was swallowed into the darkness . In the ...
... dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places - dissolved and was swallowed into the darkness . In the ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |