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 214
... road ambled down a slope to the river , where it split left and right at a T. Along this road were small one- story wood - frame houses , with dust - gray trees that thrust bram- bled limbs up into the sky . I don't know what it was ...
... road ambled down a slope to the river , where it split left and right at a T. Along this road were small one- story wood - frame houses , with dust - gray trees that thrust bram- bled limbs up into the sky . I don't know what it was ...
Page 228
... road started to curve into switchbacks . Pastoral scenery gradually gave way to sheer walls of dark primal forest on both sides of the road . Occasionally , there'd be an opening to a glimpse of the flatlands below . " Under snow , we ...
... road started to curve into switchbacks . Pastoral scenery gradually gave way to sheer walls of dark primal forest on both sides of the road . Occasionally , there'd be an opening to a glimpse of the flatlands below . " Under snow , we ...
Page 234
... road flattened out , and the mountains lost their sharp ridges . Gradually , we were in the midst of a peaceful highland scene . In another thirty minutes , the cone was completely behind us , and we came onto a plateau surrounded by ...
... road flattened out , and the mountains lost their sharp ridges . Gradually , we were in the midst of a peaceful highland scene . In another thirty minutes , the cone was completely behind us , and we came onto a plateau surrounded by ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |