The Bear Comes Home

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The Bear Comes Home
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First edition cover
Author Rafi Zabor
Publisher W. W. Norton
Publication date
July 21, 1997
Award PEN/Faulkner Award (1998)
ISBN 0-393-04037-2

The Bear Comes Home is a novel written by American writer Rafi Zabor. [1] [2] It won the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, [3] and was selected as an alternate for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. [4]

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The novel tells the story of an alto saxophone-playing bear, his involvement in the jazz subculture, and his pursuit of love, truth and perfection. [3]

Musician published the first chapters of The Bear Comes Home, in serialized form, beginning in 1979. [5] Zabor resumed work on the remainder of the book after a fourteen-year hiatus, and W. W. Norton published the novel in 1997. [3] [5]

References

  1. ↑ "The Bear Comes Home". Kirkus Reviews . June 15, 1997. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
  2. ↑ "The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor". Publishers Weekly . June 30, 1997. Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Zabor, Rafi (April 13, 1998). "Literary Paws". NewsHour (Interview). Interviewed by Elizabeth Farnsworth. PBS . Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  4. ↑ Biederman, Marcia (July 19, 1998). "Who Is Rafi Zabor?". New York Times . New York City. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved June 19, 2008.
  5. 1 2 Zabor, Rafi (2008). "NEA Writers' Corner: Rafi Zabor". National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on September 17, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2008.
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