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Publisher's summary
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.
Critic 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)
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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
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Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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Mixed Bag
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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Best Alan Furst novel!
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In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology PhD student, and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a freewheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
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STORYTELLING AS CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
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A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A 12-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice cream sodas, and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, 40 years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present.
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Took a while, but ...
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Standing by the Wall
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More Please
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Our Story Begins
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Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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Great
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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A must-read for every woman
- By Julie W. Capell on 05-06-16
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- Frank
- 05-25-14
...narration like Frank Muller and David Lynch...
Murakami is always perfect, I think. At least, I really, really like everything I've ever read by Haruki Murakami.
What make this book a little more special was the wonderful narration job by Rupert Degas. His narration is a lot Frank Muller and David Lynch combined, voice quality, like.
His different voices are perfect. He doesn't try to add in a Japanese flavor, but rather takes the Japanese settings and locales and interprets the accents to how they might seem if this novel were taking place in America.
Like when the narrator of the book goes back to his hometown, the different people in the town have a more country-esque flair to their voices.
Too, the way Rupert Degas says the word, "sheep," and the different variations of sheep in this novel is perfect. He buys into this 100 percent and allows us, the readers, to buy in 100 percent, too.
His French accents are incredible, also. When the narrator and his girlfriend are dining in the French restaurant in Tokyo, the dude really does a wonderful job with the menu items.
And the story is wonderful. If you've never read anything by Haruki Murakami, this is as good as any place to start, I guess.
If you have read Murakami before, this is definitely a Haruki Murakami novel.
It's 100 percent wonderful and definitely worth buying and reading and listening too.
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- Chris Abraham
- 01-04-14
Magic realism just the way I like it from Murakami
What did you love best about A Wild Sheep Chase?
I downloaded this onto my iPhone from Audible.com for my motorcycle ride from DC to Charleston. First, the length was perfect. Secondly, it is an amazing exploration of magic realism. With Murakami, you never truly know the difference between what is real and what is paranormal. The story is seamless, it's timeless, and while not life-changing in the same way as Wind Up Bird Chronicle, it reminds me of it and made me happy in the same way. Very fulfilling and enjoyable and I am sure I will read it again.
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- Jase
- 11-13-17
A great Murakami starter book
If you've never read Murakami before, this is one of the best books to start with. It has all the elements he's known for and the story is fascinating. Don't let the fact that it's the third book in a series scare you off, because it can be read independently. You don't need to have read any other book to read and enjoy this one.
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- Wilburn
- 12-27-16
Poor Narration
Murakami great as always, but the narrator was subpar. Some of the voices used for various characters were bizarre, ill-fitting and distracting...felt like he had an inventory of voices and was intent on using those particular voices regardless of appropriateness. This one may be one to read rather than listen to.
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- Scott
- 05-23-19
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After listening to some other Murakami novels, I’ve decided this Degas person is not the worst narrator. At least he’s able to read full sentences without stopping midway. But why on earth would a Chinese bartender in Japan sound like a cowboy from Texas?
I’m taking another star off for the “performance” because the Rat’s ex-girlfriend has a goofy southern accent too. THESE PEOPLE ARE IN JAPAN! THEY’RE JAPANESE! THEY DON’T HAVE AMERICAN ACCENTS!
I’m taking it all down to one star because I finally got to the part where he’s eating and talking. It’s disgusting. Everyone involved in this production ought to be ashamed; people are paying to listening to this because they love Murakami, not to hear some person chewing in their ear.
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- Andrea
- 01-29-18
Voices are killing me
One on my favorite books of all time, and I tried to give it a listen.
The readers voice is fine for the main character, and the girlfriend, but the ridiculous cheesy horrible over acted other voices kill the subtlety of the story. Also I’m good with listening to “he took another bite”, but mouth chewing sounds make me want to barf.
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- user
- 01-05-17
Best of trilogy for story disliked performances
Best of the rat trilogy by far and one of murakamis best.
The weirdness of this reading is the strange character voices in the performance incongruous with what we know about each of the characters from earlier in the trilogy.
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- E. Kodra
- 02-06-15
Magnificent tale of human loneliness and regret
A beautiful, and somewhat surreal book, in good Murakami tradition. In a way, it's a cautionary tale on the need to appreciate the life that you have, and the loneliness that comes from mindless pursuit of happiness in other places.
Degas reading is pure bliss...
Great for weekend afternoons when the weather is freezing cold.
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- Rebecca H
- 03-24-15
My first Murakami
I had I real expectations for this book, but was delighted by the way it was written. I'll likely read it again in hard copy as I think there's more to thereof than what I can extract from one audio sitting.
The narrator was good, and I really loved his performance of the narrating protagonist voice. His dead pan manner left me laughing more than once. Some of the depictions of other characters was a bit cartoonish at times, but not enough to take away from the story too much.
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- Golanka
- 03-21-16
Early Murakami
This is definitely Murakami!
Although this was an early one for him, I listened to this after reading many of his later works. This one follows the pattern--or perhaps created the pattern--of his books. I really enjoyed the story and it made me think like his works typically do, but I didn't enjoy it as much as some of his others (my favorites are Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84).
The author's voice was appropriately flat, and most of the accents for different characters were very good. Even the voices that weren't great were identifiable different and unique to that character. A problem I have often with narration was also present here--men narrating tend to make women's voices all sound the same (and like a man speaking in a high voice). Not an easy thing to solve, I guess...
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