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 101
... stay in a hotel ? " J asked when I wrote my hotel number on the back of a matchbook and handed it to him . " You've got a home , haven't you ? Why not stay there ? " " It's not my home anymore , ” I said . J didn't say anything to that ...
... stay in a hotel ? " J asked when I wrote my hotel number on the back of a matchbook and handed it to him . " You've got a home , haven't you ? Why not stay there ? " " It's not my home anymore , ” I said . J didn't say anything to that ...
Page 190
... stay like this . I'm worried . " " Okay . " " Unless we stay like this , we might get transported somewhere else . Someplace crazy . " As the theater interior grew dark again and the coming attrac- tions began , I brushed her hair aside ...
... stay like this . I'm worried . " " Okay . " " Unless we stay like this , we might get transported somewhere else . Someplace crazy . " As the theater interior grew dark again and the coming attrac- tions began , I brushed her hair aside ...
Page 191
... stayed in a state of quiet transport in the darkness . Her head resting on my shoulder the whole time . My shoulder ... stay ? " " I've already got an image of a place , " she said . " Like what ? " " Never mind . Get a list of hotels ...
... stayed in a state of quiet transport in the darkness . Her head resting on my shoulder the whole time . My shoulder ... stay ? " " I've already got an image of a place , " she said . " Like what ? " " Never mind . Get a list of hotels ...
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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 |