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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... coffee for two cups . It occurred to me after I ground the coffee that what I really wanted was ice tea . I'm forever realizing things too late . The transistor radio played a succession of innocuous pop songs . A perfect morning sound ...
... coffee for two cups . It occurred to me after I ground the coffee that what I really wanted was ice tea . I'm forever realizing things too late . The transistor radio played a succession of innocuous pop songs . A perfect morning sound ...
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... coffee anyway . " I tuned in to the radio traffic report as I sipped my coffee and slit open the two pieces of mail . One was an announcement from a furniture store where everything was twenty percent off . The second was a letter from ...
... coffee anyway . " I tuned in to the radio traffic report as I sipped my coffee and slit open the two pieces of mail . One was an announcement from a furniture store where everything was twenty percent off . The second was a letter from ...
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... coffee lounge , a woman wearing a bright pink dress sat at a cerulean blue grand piano playing quintessential hotel - coffee - lounge numbers filled with arpeggios and syncopation . Not bad actually , though not an echo lingered in the ...
... coffee lounge , a woman wearing a bright pink dress sat at a cerulean blue grand piano playing quintessential hotel - coffee - lounge numbers filled with arpeggios and syncopation . Not bad actually , though not an echo lingered in the ...
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