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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... train and bus lines everywhere , overlapping like some misshapen spider- web , the whole area a maze of narrow streets and drainage canals . The day of the funeral , I took a streetcar 3 Wednesday Afternoon Picnic ...
... train and bus lines everywhere , overlapping like some misshapen spider- web , the whole area a maze of narrow streets and drainage canals . The day of the funeral , I took a streetcar 3 Wednesday Afternoon Picnic ...
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... about these standards of hers . " Well , if you must know ... , " she began . A pensive thirty sec- onds went by . " It's not like anybody will do . Sometimes the whole idea turns me off . But you know , maybe A Wild Sheep Chase 5.
... about these standards of hers . " Well , if you must know ... , " she began . A pensive thirty sec- onds went by . " It's not like anybody will do . Sometimes the whole idea turns me off . But you know , maybe A Wild Sheep Chase 5.
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... whole while . Looking at her back called up memories . Memories of times before I'd met her . " Well then , " I spoke up in a voice not quite my own , the sound piped in . As expected , there was no reply . She could have been asleep ...
... whole while . Looking at her back called up memories . Memories of times before I'd met her . " Well then , " I spoke up in a voice not quite my own , the sound piped in . As expected , there was no reply . She could have been asleep ...
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... whole bouquet my new girlfriend was the least attractive bloom . As a call girl , she seemed no more than ordinary . In fact , with her ears hidden , she was plain . I couldn't figure out how Mrs. X had singled her out . Maybe she'd ...
... whole bouquet my new girlfriend was the least attractive bloom . As a call girl , she seemed no more than ordinary . In fact , with her ears hidden , she was plain . I couldn't figure out how Mrs. X had singled her out . Maybe she'd ...
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