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 89
... towns I've seen . Not the town where I was born , but different other towns . There really are a lot of different other towns in the world . Each with its own specific features , incomprehensible things that attract me . Which is why I ...
... towns I've seen . Not the town where I was born , but different other towns . There really are a lot of different other towns in the world . Each with its own specific features , incomprehensible things that attract me . Which is why I ...
Page 94
... town . Imagine your smallest town , then reduce it to a skeleton . I doubt you can picture it . I guess you'd have to call it a town anyway . You can buy clothes and groceries and gasoline . And if you get an urge to see other human ...
... town . Imagine your smallest town , then reduce it to a skeleton . I doubt you can picture it . I guess you'd have to call it a town anyway . You can buy clothes and groceries and gasoline . And if you get an urge to see other human ...
Page 244
... town inquiring about the debt collectors . But if the truth be known , Junitaki today was a dreadfully dull town . The townsfolk , when they came home from work , watched an average of four hours of television before going to bed each ...
... town inquiring about the debt collectors . But if the truth be known , Junitaki today was a dreadfully dull town . The townsfolk , when they came home from work , watched an average of four hours of television before going to bed each ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |