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 218
... already sunk a third of the way behind the hills . Two poles stood at the entrance to the sheep farm and between them hung a sign : JUNITAKI - CHO MUNICIPAL SHEEP FARM . The road passed under the sign and led up a slope , disappearing ...
... already sunk a third of the way behind the hills . Two poles stood at the entrance to the sheep farm and between them hung a sign : JUNITAKI - CHO MUNICIPAL SHEEP FARM . The road passed under the sign and led up a slope , disappearing ...
Page 260
... already checked out of the Dolphin Hotel by the time he came across it ? Had his telephone line already gone dead ? No. The Rat could have gotten in touch if he wanted to , he just didn't want to . Because I was at the Dolphin Hotel ...
... already checked out of the Dolphin Hotel by the time he came across it ? Had his telephone line already gone dead ? No. The Rat could have gotten in touch if he wanted to , he just didn't want to . Because I was at the Dolphin Hotel ...
Page 266
... already knew everything . That was indisputable . And yet , he had gone to great lengths to convince me , or rather to blackmail me , in order to get me up here . Why ? If it was something that needed doing , surely he was in a better ...
... already knew everything . That was indisputable . And yet , he had gone to great lengths to convince me , or rather to blackmail me , in order to get me up here . Why ? If it was something that needed doing , surely he was in a better ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |