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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10037571894X

ISBN-139780375718946

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038309846

Product Key Features

Book TitleWild Sheep Chase : a Novel

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicPsychological, Fantasy / General, Magical Realism, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General

GenreFiction

AuthorHaruki Murakami

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-045516

TitleLeadingA

Reviews"Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman." New York Times Book Review "A delight . . . equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest." USA Today "A witty adventure . . . a piece of verbal anarchy . . . a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish." San Francisco Chronicle "Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four RaymondsChandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau."Frederick Barthelme, "Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman." New York Times Book Review "A delight . . . equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest." USA Today "A witty adventure . . . a piece of verbal anarchy . . . a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish." San Francisco Chronicle "Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. ReadingA Wild Sheep Chaseis like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four RaymondsChandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau."Frederick Barthelme

SynopsisA 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., Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best. 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. Thus begins 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.

LC Classification NumberPL856.U673H5713 2002