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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... face - to - face , so to speak , with her ears . The director of the advertising firm placed a campaign proposal and three large black - and - white photos on my desk , telling me to prepare three head copy options for them within the ...
... face - to - face , so to speak , with her ears . The director of the advertising firm placed a campaign proposal and three large black - and - white photos on my desk , telling me to prepare three head copy options for them within the ...
Page 141
... face . That face had stayed turned toward me at the exact same angle the whole time . " What is this Will ? " I asked . " A concept that governs time , governs space , and governs pos- sibility . " " I don't follow . " " Of course . Few ...
... face . That face had stayed turned toward me at the exact same angle the whole time . " What is this Will ? " I asked . " A concept that governs time , governs space , and governs pos- sibility . " " I don't follow . " " Of course . Few ...
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... face my hand felt 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 ...
... face my hand felt 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 ...
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Ainu youth Asahikawa asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock coffee cold cyst dark desk Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone guess hair hand Haruki Murakami head Hokkaido it'd J's Bar Japan jeep Junitaki Junitaki-cho killer frost kitchen lighter living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's river road Sapporo seemed Sheep Professor Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound Sputnik Sweetheart stared stood sure talk tell there's things thought Tokyo took town turned U.S. Army waiting walked watched whiskey whole Wild Sheep Chase Wind-Up Bird Chronicle window winter word
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |