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 277
... pasture . Posts set at five - yard intervals surrounded the pasture . Wire con- necting them , old , rusty wire . We had , it seemed , found our way to the sheep pasture . I pushed open the well - worn double gate and entered . The ...
... pasture . Posts set at five - yard intervals surrounded the pasture . Wire con- necting them , old , rusty wire . We had , it seemed , found our way to the sheep pasture . I pushed open the well - worn double gate and entered . The ...
Page 304
... pasture turned steadily cooler . Day by day , the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast . Stopping in the ...
... pasture turned steadily cooler . Day by day , the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast . Stopping in the ...
Page 305
... pasture . It was as if the pasture were the winds ' own private thoroughfare . The winds raced across the pasture , never looking back , on missions of utmost urgency . On the seventh day after my arrival on the mountain , the first ...
... pasture . It was as if the pasture were the winds ' own private thoroughfare . The winds raced across the pasture , never looking back , on missions of utmost urgency . On the seventh day after my arrival on the mountain , the first ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |