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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... gave them a call to get details of the funeral . Her family lived in an old quarter of Tokyo . I got out my map and marked the block in red . There were subway and train and bus lines everywhere , overlapping like some misshapen spider ...
... gave them a call to get details of the funeral . Her family lived in an old quarter of Tokyo . I got out my map and marked the block in red . There were subway and train and bus lines everywhere , overlapping like some misshapen spider ...
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... make out what was being said , but it didn't matter to us one way or the other . A student got up on a chair and tried fooling with the vol- ume , but eventually he gave up and wandered off . " I want you , " I said . " A Wild Sheep Chase ...
... make out what was being said , but it didn't matter to us one way or the other . A student got up on a chair and tried fooling with the vol- ume , but eventually he gave up and wandered off . " I want you , " I said . " A Wild Sheep Chase ...
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... gave up on the coffee midway , dug a bent cigarette out of my pocket , and lit up with matches that I'd never seen before . The tip of the cigarette crackled dryly as its lavender smoke formed a tracery in the morning light . " I went ...
... gave up on the coffee midway , dug a bent cigarette out of my pocket , and lit up with matches that I'd never seen before . The tip of the cigarette crackled dryly as its lavender smoke formed a tracery in the morning light . " I went ...
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... gave up and hit the sack . A month had passed since I agreed to the divorce and she moved out . A non - month . Unfocused and unfelt , a lukewarm protoplasm of a month . Nothing changed from day to day , not one thing . I woke up at ...
... gave up and hit the sack . A month had passed since I agreed to the divorce and she moved out . A non - month . Unfocused and unfelt , a lukewarm protoplasm of a month . Nothing changed from day to day , not one thing . I woke up at ...
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