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      The Bear Comes Home

      by Rafi Zabor
      Published
      Aug 1997
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      Literary Literary
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      492
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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." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

      The hero of this sensational debut 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.

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      General Fiction

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      Sep 1998 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 039331863X
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      First Edition Aug 1997 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393040372
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      Sep 1998 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN B00GTGID1W
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