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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... mind that one remembers with gratitude what words are for . " -Elle " [ A Wild Sheep Chase ] begins as a detective novel , dips before long into screwball comedy , and at its close - when the dead speak becomes a tale of possession ...
... mind that one remembers with gratitude what words are for . " -Elle " [ A Wild Sheep Chase ] begins as a detective novel , dips before long into screwball comedy , and at its close - when the dead speak becomes a tale of possession ...
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... 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 blank from the whiskey , my mouth reeking from cigarettes . Drunk as I get , I can walk ...
... 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 blank from the whiskey , my mouth reeking from cigarettes . Drunk as I get , I can walk ...
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... mind me , " she said . " I didn't mean to cry . " I held out a box of tissues to her . She quietly blew her nose , then brushed the hair from her cheek . " Actually , I planned on being gone by the time you returned . I didn't want to ...
... mind me , " she said . " I didn't mean to cry . " I held out a box of tissues to her . She quietly blew her nose , then brushed the hair from her cheek . " Actually , I planned on being gone by the time you returned . I didn't want to ...
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... mind kept swim- ming swiftly around through the convoluted waterways of my consciousness , like a restless aquatic organism . The vacant chair in front of me made me think of an American novel I'd read a while back . After the wife ...
... mind kept swim- ming swiftly around through the convoluted waterways of my consciousness , like a restless aquatic organism . The vacant chair in front of me made me think of an American novel I'd read a while back . After the wife ...
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... mind , or then again it can seem like nothing much at all . Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy ( self - therapy , that is ) and there's sex as pastime . There's sex for self - improvement start to finish and there's sex ...
... mind , or then again it can seem like nothing much at all . Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy ( self - therapy , that is ) and there's sex as pastime . There's sex for self - improvement start to finish and there's sex ...
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