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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... sense of things ? " " A little , " she said . From the winter through the summer I hardly saw her . The univer- sity was blockaded and shut down on several occasions , and in any case , I was going through some personal problems of my ...
... sense of things ? " " A little , " she said . From the winter through the summer I hardly saw her . The univer- sity was blockaded and shut down on several occasions , and in any case , I was going through some personal problems of my ...
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... senses . Just great . The door maybe one - third open , I slid my body in , shutting the door behind me . The entryway was dead silent . More silent than it ought to be . That's when I noticed the red pumps at my feet . Red pumps I've ...
... senses . Just great . The door maybe one - third open , I slid my body in , shutting the door behind me . The entryway was dead silent . More silent than it ought to be . That's when I noticed the red pumps at my feet . Red pumps I've ...
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... walks out , the husband keeps her slip draped over the chair . It made sense , now that I thought about it . True , it wouldn't really help things , but it beat having that dying geranium staring at me . Besides , 23 The Slip ...
... walks out , the husband keeps her slip draped over the chair . It made sense , now that I thought about it . True , it wouldn't really help things , but it beat having that dying geranium staring at me . Besides , 23 The Slip ...
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... sense , her disappearance was due to circumstances beyond my control . What's done is done , that sort of thing . How we got on the last four years was of no consequence . Any more than the photos peeled out of the albums . Nor did it ...
... sense , her disappearance was due to circumstances beyond my control . What's done is done , that sort of thing . How we got on the last four years was of no consequence . Any more than the photos peeled out of the albums . Nor did it ...
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