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 91
... straight out of the hills with nothing to pollute it along the way . The river had silted up with the small rocks and gravel washed down from the hills , creating little falls here and there . Beneath each fall , a deep pool had formed ...
... straight out of the hills with nothing to pollute it along the way . The river had silted up with the small rocks and gravel washed down from the hills , creating little falls here and there . Beneath each fall , a deep pool had formed ...
Page 172
... straight . Up until then , I'd had no idea how much walking around in a city of nothing but straight lines can tire you out . I drank seven cups of coffee a day , took a leak every other hour . And slowly lost my appetite . " Why don't ...
... straight . Up until then , I'd had no idea how much walking around in a city of nothing but straight lines can tire you out . I drank seven cups of coffee a day , took a leak every other hour . And slowly lost my appetite . " Why don't ...
Page 258
... straight in my direction . Usually it was the Sheep Man , but sometimes it was the Rat , sometimes my girlfriend . Other times it was the sheep with the star on its back . In the end , though , nobody ever materialized . Only the winds ...
... straight in my direction . Usually it was the Sheep Man , but sometimes it was the Rat , sometimes my girlfriend . Other times it was the sheep with the star on its back . In the end , though , nobody ever materialized . Only the winds ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |