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A Wild Sheep Chase

Published
Oct 1982
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General Fiction General Fiction
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304

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A 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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Nov 1990 Plume ISBN 0452265169
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Oct 1989 Kodansha America ISBN 0870119052
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