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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... mountains were rumbling with snowslides . Ever hear a snowslide ? Right after a snowslide comes the most perfect silence . Complete , total silence . You lose almost all sense of where you are . It's that quiet . Sealed off in the mountains ...
... mountains were rumbling with snowslides . Ever hear a snowslide ? Right after a snowslide comes the most perfect silence . Complete , total silence . You lose almost all sense of where you are . It's that quiet . Sealed off in the mountains ...
Page 199
... mountains in the background as a handle toward searching out the place . You'll research places where they raise sheep . You know what to do . Any clue , anything , it doesn't matter how small , is fine . Anything is an improvement over ...
... mountains in the background as a handle toward searching out the place . You'll research places where they raise sheep . You know what to do . Any clue , anything , it doesn't matter how small , is fine . Anything is an improvement over ...
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... mountains . The angle was differ- ent , to be sure , but there was no mistaking : these were the same mountains in the Rat's photograph . I didn't need to pull out the photograph to check . Still , it was unsettling seeing with my very ...
... mountains . The angle was differ- ent , to be sure , but there was no mistaking : these were the same mountains in the Rat's photograph . I didn't need to pull out the photograph to check . Still , it was unsettling seeing with my very ...
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