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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Page 55
... moved away from the air conditioner , 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 ...
... moved away from the air conditioner , 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 ...
Page 101
... moved me , anything that really moved anyone ? Maybe , but it was all gone now . Lost , perhaps meant to be lost . Nothing I can do about it , got to let it go . At least I was still around . If the only good Indian is a dead Indian ...
... moved me , anything that really moved anyone ? Maybe , but it was all gone now . Lost , perhaps meant to be lost . Nothing I can do about it , got to let it go . At least I was still around . If the only good Indian is a dead Indian ...
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... moved toward me . Tense , com- pelling , nerve - racking , beautiful fingers . Slowly reaching across the table to crush out the cigarette not one - third smoked . I watched the ice melt in the glass , clear ice water mixing with the ...
... moved toward me . Tense , com- pelling , nerve - racking , beautiful fingers . Slowly reaching across the table to crush out the cigarette not one - third smoked . I watched the ice melt in the glass , clear ice water mixing with the ...
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