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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... couldn't . I wrote a lot of letters and tore them all up . It should've been obvi- ous , but there was no way I could explain to others what I couldn't even explain to myself . I guess . I've never been good at writing letters ...
... couldn't . I wrote a lot of letters and tore them all up . It should've been obvi- ous , but there was no way I could explain to others what I couldn't even explain to myself . I guess . I've never been good at writing letters ...
Page 316
... couldn't get warm . A damp chill had seeped into me . I couldn't bend my fingers and my ears burned and felt brittle , as if they would drop off any second . All over , my skin felt like cheap pulp paper . A thirty - minute soak in the ...
... couldn't get warm . A damp chill had seeped into me . I couldn't bend my fingers and my ears burned and felt brittle , as if they would drop off any second . All over , my skin felt like cheap pulp paper . A thirty - minute soak in the ...
Page 325
... couldn't manage to grasp too much , but at least it was my life . Slowly I returned to myself . It's hard to explain what it is to get there , and it'd undoubtedly try your interest . I had the feeling that someone was watching me , but ...
... couldn't manage to grasp too much , but at least it was my life . Slowly I returned to myself . It's hard to explain what it is to get there , and it'd undoubtedly try your interest . I had the feeling that someone was watching me , but ...
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