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 100
... moved on , and as it did , the sky turned a rain - gray . Beneath which stretched the same boring scenery . No matter how much speed we put on , there was no escaping boredom . On the contrary , the faster the speed , the more headway ...
... moved on , and as it did , the sky turned a rain - gray . Beneath which stretched the same boring scenery . No matter how much speed we put on , there was no escaping boredom . On the contrary , the faster the speed , the more headway ...
Page 101
... moved me , anything that really moved anyone ? Maybe , but it was all gone now . Lost , perhaps meant to be lost . Nothing I can do about it , got to let it go . At least I was still around . If the only good Indian is a dead Indian ...
... moved me , anything that really moved anyone ? Maybe , but it was all gone now . Lost , perhaps meant to be lost . Nothing I can do about it , got to let it go . At least I was still around . If the only good Indian is a dead Indian ...
Page 222
... moved on to the roll . " The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we've learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples . The same goes for our dealings with sheep . Sheep raising in Japan has failed precisely ...
... moved on to the roll . " The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we've learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples . The same goes for our dealings with sheep . Sheep raising in Japan has failed precisely ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |