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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... clock . It was the kind that had three weights you wound up on chains . Although all three had hit bottom , the clock was eking out its last increments of motion . Given the length of the chains , it would have taken about a week for ...
... clock . It was the kind that had three weights you wound up on chains . Although all three had hit bottom , the clock was eking out its last increments of motion . Given the length of the chains , it would have taken about a week for ...
Page 331
... clock then , didn't you ? " The Rat laughed . " Damn , if that's not a mystery . I mean the very , very last thing I did in my thirty - year life was to wind a clock . Now why should anyone who's about to die wind a clock ? Makes no ...
... clock then , didn't you ? " The Rat laughed . " Damn , if that's not a mystery . I mean the very , very last thing I did in my thirty - year life was to wind a clock . Now why should anyone who's about to die wind a clock ? Makes no ...
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... clock , then connect the cords behind the clock . Connect the green cord to the green cord and the red cord to the red cord . Then at nine - thirty I want you to get the hell out of here and go down the mountain . I've got a rendezvous ...
... clock , then connect the cords behind the clock . Connect the green cord to the green cord and the red cord to the red cord . Then at nine - thirty I want you to get the hell out of here and go down the mountain . I've got a rendezvous ...
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