The Bear Comes Home
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The Bear Comes Home is a novel written by Rafi Zabor. It won the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.[1] It was selected as an alternate for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.[2]
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.[1] Musician published the first chapters of The Bear Comes Home, in serialized form, beginning in 1979.[3] Zabor resumed work on the remainder of the book after a fourteen-year hiatus, and W. W. Norton published the novel in 1997.[1][3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Zabor, Rafi (1998-04-13). Literary Paws. Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth. NewsHour. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/bear_4-13.html. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ^ Biederman, Marcia (1998-07-19). "Who Is Rafi Zabor?". New York Times (New York City: The New York Times Company). ISSN 0362-4331. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E2DD1230F93AA25754C0A96E958260&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- ^ a b Zabor, Rafi (2008). "NEA Writers' Corner: Rafi Zabor". National Endowment for the Arts. http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=08_32. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
[edit] External links
- The Bear Comes Home webpage at W. W. Norton & Company
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