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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... already . Something gnawed at me . Something that had passed before my eyes but which I'd been too dense to notice . All the same , on an unconscious level , it had registered . I deposited my coffee cup in the sink and returned to the ...
... already . Something gnawed at me . Something that had passed before my eyes but which I'd been too dense to notice . All the same , on an unconscious level , it had registered . I deposited my coffee cup in the sink and returned to the ...
Page 308
... already checked out of the Dolphin Hotel by the time he came across it ? Had his tele- phone line already gone dead ? No. The Rat could have gotten in touch if he wanted to , he just didn't want to . Because I was at the Dolphin Hotel ...
... already checked out of the Dolphin Hotel by the time he came across it ? Had his tele- phone line already gone dead ? No. The Rat could have gotten in touch if he wanted to , he just didn't want to . Because I was at the Dolphin Hotel ...
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... already know pretty much what there is to know , right ? " " Okay , but if it makes no difference to you , let's not start at the beginning . " " Fire away . " " You're already dead , aren't you ? " I don't know how long it took the Rat ...
... already know pretty much what there is to know , right ? " " Okay , but if it makes no difference to you , let's not start at the beginning . " " Fire away . " " You're already dead , aren't you ? " I don't know how long it took the Rat ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |