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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... Oe , another time Allen Ginsberg . Didn't matter what it was , as long as it was a book . The students who drifted in and out of the place would lend her books , and she'd read them clean through , cover to cover 4 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
... Oe , another time Allen Ginsberg . Didn't matter what it was , as long as it was a book . The students who drifted in and out of the place would lend her books , and she'd read them clean through , cover to cover 4 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
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... matter of course , so she never wanted for anything to read . Those were the days of the 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 ...
... matter of course , so she never wanted for anything to read . Those were the days of the 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 ...
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... 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 9.
... 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 9.
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... 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 realm of possibility . Such things happened often enough , so how could I think her leaving me was ...
... 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 realm of possibility . Such things happened often enough , so how could I think her leaving me was ...
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... matter . We'd gotten too used to each other's role . She understood it instinctively ; I knew it from experience . There was no hope . So it was that she and her slip vanished forever . Some things are forgotten , some things disappear ...
... matter . We'd gotten too used to each other's role . She understood it instinctively ; I knew it from experience . There was no hope . So it was that she and her slip vanished forever . Some things are forgotten , some things disappear ...
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