An edition of 羊をめぐる冒険 (1982)

A wild sheep chase

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An edition of 羊をめぐる冒険 (1982)

A wild sheep chase

1st ed.
  • 3.93 ·
  • 29 Ratings
  • 96 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 42 Have read

It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral 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 in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
299

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Edition Availability
Cover of: A Wild Sheep Chase
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
April 9, 2002, Vintage, Vintage Books
in English
Cover of: Caçando Carneiros
Caçando Carneiros
2001, Estação Liberdade
Paperback in Portuguese - 1 edition
Cover of: A wild sheep chase
A wild sheep chase: a novel
1990, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: A wild sheep chase
A wild sheep chase: a novel
1990, Kodansha International
in English
Cover of: A wild sheep chase
A wild sheep chase
1989, Kodansha International
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: A wild sheep chase
A wild sheep chase
1989, Kodansha International
in English

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Book Details


Published in

Tokyo, New York, N.Y

Edition Notes

Translation of: Hitsuji o meguru bōken.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.6/35
Library of Congress
PL856.U673 H5713 1989

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
299 p. ;
Number of pages
299

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2068263M
Internet Archive
wildsheepchase00murarich
ISBN 10
0870119052
LCCN
88080299
OCLC/WorldCat
19670739
Library Thing
4987
Goodreads
3107334

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