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 88
... cold now and my hands are numb . It's like they aren't my own hands . My brains , they aren't like my own brains either . Right now it's snowing . Snow like flakes of someone else's brains . And it'll pile up deeper and deeper like ...
... cold now and my hands are numb . It's like they aren't my own hands . My brains , they aren't like my own brains either . Right now it's snowing . Snow like flakes of someone else's brains . And it'll pile up deeper and deeper like ...
Page 117
... cold and lonely life . ” " Well , if you really want to know , it hasn't been all that cold and lonely , " she said . " Just the sound of the waves is . That alone puts a chill on things . When I moved in , the superintendent said I'd ...
... cold and lonely life . ” " Well , if you really want to know , it hasn't been all that cold and lonely , " she said . " Just the sound of the waves is . That alone puts a chill on things . When I moved in , the superintendent said I'd ...
Page 266
... cold disinfectant on a day like this could be brutal . Maybe sheep don't feel cold ? Maybe they don't feel any- thing . Hokkaido's short autumn season was drawing to a close . The thick gray clouds in the north were intimations of the ...
... cold disinfectant on a day like this could be brutal . Maybe sheep don't feel cold ? Maybe they don't feel any- thing . Hokkaido's short autumn season was drawing to a close . The thick gray clouds in the north were intimations of the ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |