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 81
... mountains were rumbling with snowslides . Ever hear a snowslide ? Right after a snowslide comes the most perfect silence . Complete , total silence . You lose almost all sense of where you are . It's that quiet . Sealed off in the mountains ...
... mountains were rumbling with snowslides . Ever hear a snowslide ? Right after a snowslide comes the most perfect silence . Complete , total silence . You lose almost all sense of where you are . It's that quiet . Sealed off in the mountains ...
Page 178
... mountains . The birch grove was different in shape from the one in the Rat's photograph , but the mountains in the background were the same mountains . Even the composition of the photograph was the same . " Just great , " I said to her ...
... mountains . The birch grove was different in shape from the one in the Rat's photograph , but the mountains in the background were the same mountains . Even the composition of the photograph was the same . " Just great , " I said to her ...
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... mountain or that he hadn't gone down at all . Neither made sense . Up to three days ago the cliff road would have been ... mountains seemed to mist over , and the smell of grass was overwhelming . I walked through the damp grass to the ...
... mountain or that he hadn't gone down at all . Neither made sense . Up to three days ago the cliff road would have been ... mountains seemed to mist over , and the smell of grass was overwhelming . I walked through the damp grass to the ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |