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 47
... Sure . " " Then you ought to show them , " I said . " No need to go out of your way to put up with such dull times . " Dead serious , she stared at me and said , " You don't understand anything . " For sure , there were a lot of things ...
... Sure . " " Then you ought to show them , " I said . " No need to go out of your way to put up with such dull times . " Dead serious , she stared at me and said , " You don't understand anything . " For sure , there were a lot of things ...
Page 89
... sure I could have written bet- ter novels . Maybe not your Dostoyevsky , but a known second - rate novelist . And what would you have been doing ? Maybe you'd only have been Count Such - and - such straight through . That wouldn't be so ...
... sure I could have written bet- ter novels . Maybe not your Dostoyevsky , but a known second - rate novelist . And what would you have been doing ? Maybe you'd only have been Count Such - and - such straight through . That wouldn't be so ...
Page 260
... Sure is , " said the man . " No doubt about it : they're our sheep too . " " What about this one ? " I pointed with my ballpoint pen to the stocky sheep with the star on its back . The man squinted at the photograph a second . “ No ...
... Sure is , " said the man . " No doubt about it : they're our sheep too . " " What about this one ? " I pointed with my ballpoint pen to the stocky sheep with the star on its back . The man squinted at the photograph a second . “ No ...
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