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Bear Comes Home

by Rafi Zabor
Bear Comes Home

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ISBN13: 9780393318630
ISBN10: 039331863X



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The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto-sax virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Coltrane and Rollins. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Blake- and Shakespeare-quoting bear whose musical, spiritual, and romantic adventures add up to perhaps the best novel, ursine or human, ever written about jazz. "Poignant and touching moments combine with hilarious descriptions of the bear's struggle in a story that anyone -- whether familiar with jazz or not -- will find compelling and entertaining."--David Amram, "Zabor's knack for detail makes the absurd premise believable . . . and neatly turns the weighty subject -- the painful and ungainly growth of an artist -- into a comic gem."--  "In fluent, witty prose Zabor conveys with remarkable vividness the texture of group improvisation. . . . It swings."--A. O. Scott, "Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you. Get the Bear."--David Nicholson,   "Zabor . . . conveys the mingled joy and terror of musical improvisation. He also displays a mean wit."-- One of the 's 100 best books of 1997 Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: "A hilarious, richly imagined bear's eye view of love, music, alienation, manhood and humanity . . . that recalls Pynchon at his most controlled."--

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Rafi Zabor is a writer and occasional jazz drummer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Bear Comes Home is his first novel.

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ISBN:
9780393318630
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/17/1998
Publisher:
W W NORTON & CO
Series info:
52d Congress, 1st session, no. 154
Pages:
484
Height:
1.19IN
Width:
5.56IN
Thickness:
1.27 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1998
UPC Code:
2800393318632
Author:
Rafi Zabor
Subject:
New York
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Jazz musicians
Subject:
Bears
Subject:
Saxophonists.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z

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