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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... moved . Reminded me of a street washed clean after a downpour . On leaving , I lowered my head in silence , and he lowered his head in return , without a word . I met her in autumn nine years ago , when I was twenty and she was ...
... moved . Reminded me of a street washed clean after a downpour . On leaving , I lowered my head in silence , and he lowered his head in return , without a word . I met her in autumn nine years ago , when I was twenty and she was ...
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... 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 seven , made toast and coffee , headed out to work , ate dinner out , had one or two ...
... 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 seven , made toast and coffee , headed out to work , ate dinner out , had one or two ...
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... 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 anything out of the ordinary ? The long and the short of it was , it was up to her . " The ...
... 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 anything out of the ordinary ? The long and the short of it was , it was up to her . " The ...
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