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]
Details
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]
References
- ^ a b c Zabor, Rafi (1998-04-13). "Literary Paws". NewsHour (Interview). Interviewed by Elizabeth Farnsworth. PBS. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ Biederman, Marcia (1998-07-19). "Who Is Rafi Zabor?". New York Times. New York City. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- ^ a b Zabor, Rafi (2008). "NEA Writers' Corner: Rafi Zabor". National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
External links
- The Bear Comes Home webpage at W. W. Norton & Company
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