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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Page 47
... that , she only laughed . " It's really very simple , " she said . " You sought me out . That's the biggest reason . " " And supposing somebody else had sought you out ? " " At least for the present , it's you who wants me . What's more ...
... that , she only laughed . " It's really very simple , " she said . " You sought me out . That's the biggest reason . " " And supposing somebody else had sought you out ? " " At least for the present , it's you who wants me . What's more ...
Page 96
... that's right . Each woman has a drawer marked " beautiful , " stuffed full of all sorts of meaningless junk . That's my specialty . I pull out those pieces of junk one by one , dust them off , and find some kind of meaning in them . That's ...
... that's right . Each woman has a drawer marked " beautiful , " stuffed full of all sorts of meaningless junk . That's my specialty . I pull out those pieces of junk one by one , dust them off , and find some kind of meaning in them . That's ...
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... that rots in the body . Like gangrene . I've felt that ever since I was a teenager . That's why I was always on edge . There's this something inside you that's rotting away and you feel it all along . Can you understand what that's like ...
... that rots in the body . Like gangrene . I've felt that ever since I was a teenager . That's why I was always on edge . There's this something inside you that's rotting away and you feel it all along . Can you understand what that's like ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |