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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... Doors , the Stones , the Byrds , Deep Purple , and the Moody Blues . The air was alive , even as every- thing seemed poised on the verge of collapse , waiting for a push . She and I would trade books , talk endlessly , drink cheap ...
... Doors , the Stones , the Byrds , Deep Purple , and the Moody Blues . The air was alive , even as every- thing seemed poised on the verge of collapse , waiting for a push . She and I would trade books , talk endlessly , drink cheap ...
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... doors shutting behind me before closing my eyes . Then , gathering up the pieces of my mind , I started off on the sixteen steps down the hall to my apartment door . Eyes closed , exactly sixteen steps . No more , no less . My head ...
... doors shutting behind me before closing my eyes . Then , gathering up the pieces of my mind , I started off on the sixteen steps down the hall to my apartment door . Eyes closed , exactly sixteen steps . No more , no less . My head ...
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... door . From somewhere behind my ears , a click . Me , a wad of cotton soaked through with alcohol . With only a modicum of control of my senses . Just great . The door maybe one - third open , I slid my body in , shutting the door ...
... door . From somewhere behind my ears , a click . Me , a wad of cotton soaked through with alcohol . With only a modicum of control of my senses . Just great . The door maybe one - third open , I slid my body in , shutting the door ...
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