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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... walked over to the cen- ter of the room , and dropped myself down on the plush sky - blue Swedish sofa . I extracted a filter - tip Pall Mall from the special vis- itors ' cigarette case and lit up with the heavy tabletop lighter . " So ...
... walked over to the cen- ter of the room , and dropped myself down on the plush sky - blue Swedish sofa . I extracted a filter - tip Pall Mall from the special vis- itors ' cigarette case and lit up with the heavy tabletop lighter . " So ...
Page 279
... walked , we seemed to make no progress . I couldn't get any feeling for the dis- tance . Come to think of it , this was the first level ground we'd walked on , so even things far off seemed within reach . A flock of birds crossed the ...
... walked , we seemed to make no progress . I couldn't get any feeling for the dis- tance . Come to think of it , this was the first level ground we'd walked on , so even things far off seemed within reach . A flock of birds crossed the ...
Page 309
... walked around for an hour and lost all sense of direction . At this rate , I was hardly going to find the Sheep Man . I roamed the bottom of one dry hollow until I heard the sound of water . I sought out the river , then followed it ...
... walked around for an hour and lost all sense of direction . At this rate , I was hardly going to find the Sheep Man . I roamed the bottom of one dry hollow until I heard the sound of water . I sought out the river , then followed it ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |