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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... light anywhere . No stationmaster , no clock , no timetable , no nothing - so went the dream . I still remember that eerie afternoon . The twenty - fifth of Novem- ber . Gingko leaves brought down by heavy rains had turned the footpaths ...
... light anywhere . No stationmaster , no clock , no timetable , no nothing - so went the dream . I still remember that eerie afternoon . The twenty - fifth of Novem- ber . Gingko leaves brought down by heavy rains had turned the footpaths ...
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... light , her in shadow . Colorless shadow . A withered potted geranium sat on the table . Outside , someone was watering down the street . Splash on the pavement , smell of wet asphalt . " Want some coffee ? " No reply . So I got up and ...
... light , her in shadow . Colorless shadow . A withered potted geranium sat on the table . Outside , someone was watering down the street . Splash on the pavement , smell of wet asphalt . " Want some coffee ? " No reply . So I got up and ...
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... light of morn- ing decomposes everything . I 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 ...
... light of morn- ing decomposes everything . I 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 ...
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... light rock returned to the airwaves . She set her coffee back down and looked me in the face . " Tell me , if I died , would you go out drinking like that ? " " The funeral had nothing to do with my drinking . Only the first one or two ...
... light rock returned to the airwaves . She set her coffee back down and looked me in the face . " Tell me , if I died , would you go out drinking like that ? " " The funeral had nothing to do with my drinking . Only the first one or two ...
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... lights , and slept . Saturdays and Sundays , instead of work , I was out killing time from morning on , making the rounds of movie theaters . Then I had dinner and a couple of drinks , read , and went to sleep , alone . So it went : I ...
... lights , and slept . Saturdays and Sundays , instead of work , I was out killing time from morning on , making the rounds of movie theaters . Then I had dinner and a couple of drinks , read , and went to sleep , alone . So it went : I ...
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