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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... four hours , I felt surprisingly awake . My body was hazed to the core , but my mind kept swim- ming swiftly around through the convoluted waterways of my consciousness , like a restless aquatic organism . The vacant chair in front of ...
... four hours , I felt surprisingly awake . My body was hazed to the core , but my mind kept swim- ming swiftly around through the convoluted waterways of my consciousness , like a restless aquatic organism . The vacant chair in front of ...
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... four years was of no consequence . Any more than the photos peeled out of the albums . Nor did it matter that she'd been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time and one day upped and moved in with him . All this was within the ...
... four years was of no consequence . Any more than the photos peeled out of the albums . Nor did it matter that she'd been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time and one day upped and moved in with him . All this was within the ...
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