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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... dark and damp , and a traffic jam stretched for several miles on the eastbound lanes of the elevated expressway . As I stared out long and hard , things began to melt in the rain . In fact , everything in town was melting . The ...
... dark and damp , and a traffic jam stretched for several miles on the eastbound lanes of the elevated expressway . As I stared out long and hard , things began to melt in the rain . In fact , everything in town was melting . The ...
Page 325
... dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places - dissolved and was swallowed into the darkness . In the ...
... dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places - dissolved and was swallowed into the darkness . In the ...
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... darkness and take an armful of beer out of the refrigerator , me opening and closing my eyes the whole while . The ... dark . " We said nothing while we drank . " Well then , " said the Rat , clearing his throat . I set my empty back ...
... darkness and take an armful of beer out of the refrigerator , me opening and closing my eyes the whole while . The ... dark . " We said nothing while we drank . " Well then , " said the Rat , clearing his throat . I set my empty back ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |