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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... cigarette butts . The only thing that changed was the book . One time it'd be Mickey Spillane , another time Kenzaburo Oe , another time Allen Ginsberg . Didn't matter what it was , as long as it was a book . The students who drifted in ...
... cigarette butts . The only thing that changed was the book . One time it'd be Mickey Spillane , another time Kenzaburo Oe , another time Allen Ginsberg . Didn't matter what it was , as long as it was a book . The students who drifted in ...
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... cigarette bills ( no mean sum for us types in those days ) , then typically end up sleeping with the guy . There . That's everything I know about her . From the autumn of that year on into the spring of the next , once a week on Tuesday ...
... cigarette bills ( no mean sum for us types in those days ) , then typically end up sleeping with the guy . There . That's everything I know about her . From the autumn of that year on into the spring of the next , once a week on Tuesday ...
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... cigarette smoke and toilet stink . So crowded there was hardly standing room . The seats all caked with vomit . It was all I could do to get up and leave the train at the station . But it was not a station at all . Only an open field ...
... cigarette smoke and toilet stink . So crowded there was hardly standing room . The seats all caked with vomit . It was all I could do to get up and leave the train at the station . But it was not a station at all . Only an open field ...
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... cigarette still at her lips , she rubbed her eyelid with her fin- gertip . " No special reason . " " No , never , " I said . " Honest ? " " Honest . Why would I want to kill you ? " " Oh , I guess you're right , " she said . " I thought ...
... cigarette still at her lips , she rubbed her eyelid with her fin- gertip . " No special reason . " " No , never , " I said . " Honest ? " " Honest . Why would I want to kill you ? " " Oh , I guess you're right , " she said . " I thought ...
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A Novel Haruki Murakami. She laughed . She put her cigarette out , drank down the rest of her tea , then lit up again . " I'm going to live to be twenty - five , " she said , " then die . " July , eight years later , she was dead at ...
A Novel Haruki Murakami. She laughed . She put her cigarette out , drank down the rest of her tea , then lit up again . " I'm going to live to be twenty - five , " she said , " then die . " July , eight years later , she was dead at ...
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