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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... never should have gotten married . At least never to her . In the beginning , she thought she was the one unfit for society and made me out to be the socially functioning one . In our respec- tive roles , we got along relatively well ...
... never should have gotten married . At least never to her . In the beginning , she thought she was the one unfit for society and made me out to be the socially functioning one . In our respec- tive roles , we got along relatively well ...
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... never gives interviews , is never photographed . It's not even cer- tain he's alive . Five years back , a magazine reporter got a scoop im- plicating him in some shady investment deals , but the story never saw the light of day ...
... never gives interviews , is never photographed . It's not even cer- tain he's alive . Five years back , a magazine reporter got a scoop im- plicating him in some shady investment deals , but the story never saw the light of day ...
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... Never out in the open , his was to be a presence that manipulated society from behind the scenes . And for that reason , in 1937 he headed over to the Chinese mainland . But even so - well , let us leave it at that . To return to the ...
... Never out in the open , his was to be a presence that manipulated society from behind the scenes . And for that reason , in 1937 he headed over to the Chinese mainland . But even so - well , let us leave it at that . To return to the ...
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Ainu youth Asahikawa ashtray asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock clouds coffee cold dark Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone guess hair hand head Hokkaido it'd jeep Junitaki kids killer frost living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded o'clock okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's river road Sapporo Saudi Arabia seemed Sheep Professor Sherlock Holmes Shinjuku Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound stared Station stood straight sure talk tell Thanks for everything there's things thought Tokyo Tokyo Station took town turned U.S. Army waiting walked watched whiskey whole WILD SHEEP CHASE window winter word
References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |