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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... U.S. Army still retains the detailed accounts of these hallucinatory experi- ences . The doctors apparently made meticulous observations . I obtained these by special means and have read them through sev- eral times , and in spite of ...
... U.S. Army still retains the detailed accounts of these hallucinatory experi- ences . The doctors apparently made meticulous observations . I obtained these by special means and have read them through sev- eral times , and in spite of ...
Page 137
... U.S. Army elite at the time and the Boss himself . So far , the Boss has never spoken a word about this to anyone , myself included , and it is doubtful he ever will . " When he finished talking , the man cleared his throat . I had lost ...
... U.S. Army elite at the time and the Boss himself . So far , the Boss has never spoken a word about this to anyone , myself included , and it is doubtful he ever will . " When he finished talking , the man cleared his throat . I had lost ...
Page 138
... U.S. Army doctors as well . Still , that expla- nation alone is not quite adequate . There is something missing here . I cannot help thinking that the phenomenon of the blood cyst was the secondary manifestation of a more significant ...
... U.S. Army doctors as well . Still , that expla- nation alone is not quite adequate . There is something missing here . I cannot help thinking that the phenomenon of the blood cyst was the secondary manifestation of a more significant ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |