A Wild Sheep Chase: A NovelA New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the 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 who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. |
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... asked . " You got me , " he said . “ Did she even have family ? " Of course she had a family . I called the police department to track down her family's address and telephone number , after which I gave them a call to get details of the ...
... asked . " You got me , " he said . “ Did she even have family ? " Of course she had a family . I called the police department to track down her family's address and telephone number , after which I gave them a call to get details of the ...
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... asking directions each time . It was a wood - frame house with a brown board fence around it . A small yard , with an abandoned ceramic brazier filled with standing rainwater . The ground was dark and damp . She'd left home when she was ...
... asking directions each time . It was a wood - frame house with a brown board fence around it . A small yard , with an abandoned ceramic brazier filled with standing rainwater . The ground was dark and damp . She'd left home when she was ...
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... asked her about these standards of hers . " Well , if you must know ... , " she began . A pensive thirty sec- onds went by . " It's not like anybody will do . Sometimes the whole idea turns me off . But you know , maybe A Wild Sheep Chase ...
... asked her about these standards of hers . " Well , if you must know ... , " she began . A pensive thirty sec- onds went by . " It's not like anybody will do . Sometimes the whole idea turns me off . But you know , maybe A Wild Sheep Chase ...
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... asked me . " Different things , " I said . " Wiser for it ? " " A little . " That night , I slept with her for the first time . About her background I know almost nothing . What I do know , someone may have told me ; maybe it was she ...
... asked me . " Different things , " I said . " Wiser for it ? " " A little . " That night , I slept with her for the first time . About her background I know almost nothing . What I do know , someone may have told me ; maybe it was she ...
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... asked . " You ? " " Yeah . " " Why're you asking me such a thing ? " Her cigarette still at her lips , she rubbed her eyelid with her fin- gertip . " No special reason . " " No , never , " I said . " Honest ? " " Honest . Why would I ...
... asked . " You ? " " Yeah . " " Why're you asking me such a thing ? " Her cigarette still at her lips , she rubbed her eyelid with her fin- gertip . " No special reason . " " No , never , " I said . " Honest ? " " Honest . Why would I ...
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