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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... four years was of no consequence . Any more than the photos peeled out of the albums . Nor did it matter that she'd been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time and one day upped and moved in with him . All this was within the ...
... four years was of no consequence . Any more than the photos peeled out of the albums . Nor did it matter that she'd been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time and one day upped and moved in with him . All this was within the ...
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... four years . Four years ago , the return home had been to take care of paperwork related to the family registry when I got married . When I thought back on it , what a pointless trip ! I thought it was all paperwork . The problem was ...
... four years . Four years ago , the return home had been to take care of paperwork related to the family registry when I got married . When I thought back on it , what a pointless trip ! I thought it was all paperwork . The problem was ...
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... four more new families had arrived with sixteen people . By 1897 , seven more new families had arrived with twenty - four people . The number of settlers rose steadily . The communal hut was expanded into a more formal meeting hall ...
... four more new families had arrived with sixteen people . By 1897 , seven more new families had arrived with twenty - four people . The number of settlers rose steadily . The communal hut was expanded into a more formal meeting hall ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |