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 113
... rain had been preceded by four or five days of crisp , clear early summer skies , fooling people into thinking the rainy season was over . From the eighth - floor window , every square inch of ground looked dark and damp , and a traffic ...
... rain had been preceded by four or five days of crisp , clear early summer skies , fooling people into thinking the rainy season was over . From the eighth - floor window , every square inch of ground looked dark and damp , and a traffic ...
Page 119
... rain sped earthward through a green glow . If I looked down , the rain seemed to pour straight into one fixed point on the ground . I plopped down on the bed and smoked a couple cigarettes , then called the front desk to make a ...
... rain sped earthward through a green glow . If I looked down , the rain seemed to pour straight into one fixed point on the ground . I plopped down on the bed and smoked a couple cigarettes , then called the front desk to make a ...
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... rain had already started . Up close , the house was big- ger and older than it had appeared from a distance . The white paint was blistered and peeling , the flakes on the ground long since brown from the rain . At this point , you'd ...
... rain had already started . Up close , the house was big- ger and older than it had appeared from a distance . The white paint was blistered and peeling , the flakes on the ground long since brown from the rain . At this point , you'd ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |