The Bear Comes Home
  • Published:
    Aug-1997 (Hardcover)
    Sep-1998 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    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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    •  
    • Sep-1998
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 039331863X
    • ISBN13: 9780393318630
    • First Edition
    • Aug-1997
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393040372
    • ISBN13: 9780393040371
    •  
    • Sep-1998
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0393244393
    • ISBN13: 9780393244397



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