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 191
... winter . I'm sure the owner uses the place only two , maybe three months a year . It's nice and quiet there . " " Does anyone look after the place when the owner's not there ? " " I doubt if anyone stays there over the winter . Other ...
... winter . I'm sure the owner uses the place only two , maybe three months a year . It's nice and quiet there . " " Does anyone look after the place when the owner's not there ? " " I doubt if anyone stays there over the winter . Other ...
Page 202
... winter vegetables , how to survive the snow , how to fish in the frozen river , how to lay traps for the wolves ... winter wind . It was not un- common to awaken and find a foot of snow by one's pillow . Most families had but one set of ...
... winter vegetables , how to survive the snow , how to fish in the frozen river , how to lay traps for the wolves ... winter wind . It was not un- common to awaken and find a foot of snow by one's pillow . Most families had but one set of ...
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... winter ? " asked my girlfriend . His hands still on the steering wheel , the caretaker turned around and gazed at her , practically drinking in her face , as if he hadn't noticed her before . The road was paved and straight and there ...
... winter ? " asked my girlfriend . His hands still on the steering wheel , the caretaker turned around and gazed at her , practically drinking in her face , as if he hadn't noticed her before . The road was paved and straight and there ...
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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
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |