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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... morning edition . A friend rang me up and read it to me . Nothing special . Something a rookie reporter fresh out of college might've written for practice . The date , a street corner , a person driving a truck , a pedestrian , a ...
... morning edition . A friend rang me up and read it to me . Nothing special . Something a rookie reporter fresh out of college might've written for practice . The date , a street corner , a person driving a truck , a pedestrian , a ...
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... mornings , we'd go for a walk through the woods to the ICU campus and have lunch in the dining hall . In the afternoon , we'd have a weak cup of coffee in the student lounge , and if the weather was good , we'd stretch out on the grass ...
... mornings , we'd go for a walk through the woods to the ICU campus and have lunch in the dining hall . In the afternoon , we'd have a weak cup of coffee in the student lounge , and if the weather was good , we'd stretch out on the grass ...
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... morning . A startlingly white moon shone in the middle of the sky . I waited for her to stop crying before putting the kettle on for tea . One teabag for the both of us . No sugar , no lemon , just plain hot tea . Then lighting up two ...
... morning . A startlingly white moon shone in the middle of the sky . I waited for her to stop crying before putting the kettle on for tea . One teabag for the both of us . No sugar , no lemon , just plain hot tea . Then lighting up two ...
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... morning air in the concrete hallway . Then I'd close my eyes and walk sixteen steps straight through the whiskey fog . Within the bounds of that sixteen - step world , I bear the title of " Most Courteous of Drunks . " A simple ...
... morning air in the concrete hallway . Then I'd close my eyes and walk sixteen steps straight through the whiskey fog . Within the bounds of that sixteen - step world , I bear the title of " Most Courteous of Drunks . " A simple ...
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... morning sound track . The world had barely changed in ten years . Only the singers and song titles . And my age . The water came to a boil . I shut off the gas , let the water cool thirty seconds , poured it over the coffee . The ...
... morning sound track . The world had barely changed in ten years . Only the singers and song titles . And my age . The water came to a boil . I shut off the gas , let the water cool thirty seconds , poured it over the coffee . The ...
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