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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Page 155
... looked more like an upside - down metal cookie cutter than a submarine . You could make a gigantic cookie that would take three hundred kids two weeks to eat . She and I sat on the windowsill looking down at the car . The sky was ...
... looked more like an upside - down metal cookie cutter than a submarine . You could make a gigantic cookie that would take three hundred kids two weeks to eat . She and I sat on the windowsill looking down at the car . The sky was ...
Page 166
... looked terribly happy . Of course , to their eyes , I probably looked a bit forlorn too . I drew the curtains shut and returned to the bed , rolled over on the hard - as - asphalt starched sheets , and thought about my ex- wife . I ...
... looked terribly happy . Of course , to their eyes , I probably looked a bit forlorn too . I drew the curtains shut and returned to the bed , rolled over on the hard - as - asphalt starched sheets , and thought about my ex- wife . I ...
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... looked once more at the living room in the mirror , then looked over at the living room . The Sheep Man was on the sofa , lazily gazing out at the snow . I checked the Sheep Man in the mirror . But there wasn't any Sheep Man in the ...
... looked once more at the living room in the mirror , then looked over at the living room . The Sheep Man was on the sofa , lazily gazing out at the snow . I checked the Sheep Man in the mirror . But there wasn't any Sheep Man 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 |