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Deep Sheep Dip |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Jay Rubin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,940 Words, 16,713 Characters |
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A WILD SHEEP CHASE
Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1989
263 pp., $18.95
I used to feel grateful to the Seattle Times for carrying Dave Barry's column since they were obviously doing it just for me. That particular brand of off-the-wall humor couldn't possibly appeal to anyone else. Then I found out that Dave Barry had won the Pulitzer Prize and is read by millions of people, many of whom are nearly sane.
Take Dave's recent column on male obsessions with sports, for example, in which he reveals that large numbers of apparently normal men spend many of their waking hours "managing PRETEND BASEBALL TEAMS." Dave remarks: "This is crazy, right? If these guys said they were managing herds of pretend caribou, the aut...
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... himself.)
In A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami has begun to let his imagination soar. He is moving confidently toward The End of the World and Hardboiled Wonderland, a breathtaking 1985 tour de force in which he might be said to have found his mature voice - if such judgments can be made at this stage for such an inventive writer. Sheep Chase is a delight, but it's just the beginning.
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