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 79
... stopped every day , two in the morn- ing , one at noon , two in the evening . I'd been to Aomori several times in December . Frigid . The traf- fic signals freeze . I showed the letter to my wife , wife at the time , that is . All she ...
... stopped every day , two in the morn- ing , one at noon , two in the evening . I'd been to Aomori several times in December . Frigid . The traf- fic signals freeze . I showed the letter to my wife , wife at the time , that is . All she ...
Page 91
... stopped into a liquor store , bought two cans of beer , and car- ried them in a paper bag down to the sea . Where the river met the sea , it turned into an inlet , or rather into a half - filled - in canal . Here was the only untouched ...
... stopped into a liquor store , bought two cans of beer , and car- ried them in a paper bag down to the sea . Where the river met the sea , it turned into an inlet , or rather into a half - filled - in canal . Here was the only untouched ...
Page 170
... stopped into a bookstore and bought The Mountains of Hok- kaido and a Hokkaido atlas , then went into a café , had two ginger ales , and skimmed through my purchases . As far as mountains were concerned , there was an unbelievable ...
... stopped into a bookstore and bought The Mountains of Hok- kaido and a Hokkaido atlas , then went into a café , had two ginger ales , and skimmed through my purchases . As far as mountains were concerned , there was an unbelievable ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |