This is Russell. Sometimes Russell is just a little bit out of step with the rest of the flock. All the sheep are falling asleep—except Russell. What's a sheep to do? Russell tries everything . . . until, at last, he falls asleep. Good night, Russell!
Much has been written about Murakami and "Wild Sheep Chase", including that this work is a shining example of the postmodern novel. While this may be the case, potential readers shouldn't shy away from this book simply because they may not know a fig about postmodernism. Unlike other "postmodern novels", which are often thickets of high rhetoric and voluminous nonsense, "Wild Sheep Chase" can be read on a multitude of levels: both as lit crit and as pure, enjoyable fiction. To read it strictly as one or the other is to do a great injustice to this work.
When Babe wins the National Sheep Dog Trials he thinks he can do anything! He tries to help Farmer Hoggett fix the well, but ends up causing a terrible accident instead. Without Farmer Hoggett in charge, it's up to Babe and Mrs Hoggett to go to the city in order to save the farm
When Angie dreams about being devoured by a giant wolf, her parents tell her it is only her imagination. But later, while on a vacation in Iceland with her grandfather and two cousins, she begins to wonder if the dream wasn't a warning. First, there are strange scratches outside her window. Then she finds out that sheep have recently been disappearing from her uncle's farm. But it isn't until she and her cousins go to the old croft house that they discover the horrifying truth.
Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5366.29 | Fiction literature | 13 April 2011
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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
In this refreshingly original detective story from debut German author Swann, a flock of sheep investigates the murder of their beloved shepherd, George Glenn. Leading the effort is Miss Maple, considered the cleverest sheep in the Irish seaside village of Glennkill. She slyly "pretends" to graze while eavesdropping on suspects who come to search George's caravan for something he may have died for. When a long-lost ram recounts an incident that occurred upon his departure years earlier, Miss Maple uncovers the catalyst for George's death.
