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 15
... eyes . Then , gathering up the pieces of my mind , I started off on the sixteen steps down the hall to my apartment door . Eyes closed , exactly sixteen steps . No more , no less . My head blank from the whiskey , my mouth reeking from ...
... eyes . Then , gathering up the pieces of my mind , I started off on the sixteen steps down the hall to my apartment door . Eyes closed , exactly sixteen steps . No more , no less . My head blank from the whiskey , my mouth reeking from ...
Page 124
... eyes , they were an arresting color . Dark brown with the faintest touch of blue , the hue of the left eye ... eyes . He seemed to have an uncanny purchase on the drift of my thoughts . " All of us , whosoever , must die sometime ...
... eyes , they were an arresting color . Dark brown with the faintest touch of blue , the hue of the left eye ... eyes . He seemed to have an uncanny purchase on the drift of my thoughts . " All of us , whosoever , must die sometime ...
Page 258
... eyes on me . They seemed to think as a group . Had my standing in the entrance momentarily interrupted their unified thinking ? Everything stopped , all judgment on hold . It took a move by me to restart their mental processes . In ...
... eyes on me . They seemed to think as a group . Had my standing in the entrance momentarily interrupted their unified thinking ? Everything stopped , all judgment on hold . It took a move by me to restart their mental processes . In ...
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