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 157
... there's the photo- graph , then there's your friend up there , right ? You're bound to find out something one way or another . " " Both are awfully vague as leads go . The landscape in the pho- tograph is absolutely too ordinary , and ...
... there's the photo- graph , then there's your friend up there , right ? You're bound to find out something one way or another . " " Both are awfully vague as leads go . The landscape in the pho- tograph is absolutely too ordinary , and ...
Page 267
... there's something he needs . A shopping list or some- thing . " " Did you get the phone to ring ? " " Not even a busy signal . Must be a line down somewhere . Not unlikely if there's been a big snow . " " But there hasn't been any snow ...
... there's something he needs . A shopping list or some- thing . " " Did you get the phone to ring ? " " Not even a busy signal . Must be a line down somewhere . Not unlikely if there's been a big snow . " " But there hasn't been any snow ...
Page 333
... There's this something inside you that's rotting away and you feel it all along . Can you understand what that's like ? " I sat silent , wrapped up in the blanket . " Probably not , " the Rat continued . " There isn't that side to you ...
... There's this something inside you that's rotting away and you feel it all along . Can you understand what that's like ? " I sat silent , wrapped up in the blanket . " Probably not , " the Rat continued . " There isn't that side to you ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |