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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... matter what it was , as long as it was a book . The students who drifted in and out of the place would lend her books , and she'd read them clean through , cover to cover . Devour them , like so many ears of corn . In those days ...
... matter what it was , as long as it was a book . The students who drifted in and out of the place would lend her books , and she'd read them clean through , cover to cover . Devour them , like so many ears of corn . In those days ...
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... matter that she'd been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time and one day upped and moved in with him . All this was within the realm of possibility . Such things happened often enough , so how could I think her leaving me was ...
... matter that she'd been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time and one day upped and moved in with him . All this was within the realm of possibility . Such things happened often enough , so how could I think her leaving me was ...
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... matter how much speed we put on , there was no escaping boredom . On the contrary , the faster the speed , the more headway into boredom . Ah , the nature of boredom . Next to me sat a business type in his mid - twenties , engrossed in ...
... matter how much speed we put on , there was no escaping boredom . On the contrary , the faster the speed , the more headway into boredom . Ah , the nature of boredom . Next to me sat a business type in his mid - twenties , engrossed in ...
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Ainu youth Asahikawa ashtray asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Border collie Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock coffee cold cyst dark desk Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone grandfather clock guess hair hand head Hokkaido it'd J's Bar Japan jeep Johnny Rivers Junitaki Junitaki-cho killer frost lighter living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's road Sapporo seemed Sheep Professor Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound stared stood sure talk tell 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 |