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4/5 MouthShut | 3.9/5 Goodreads Originally published 1 July 1997 Genres Novel, Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Similar PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bear Comes Home is a novel written by Rafi Zabor. It won the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. It was selected as an alternate for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
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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.
Musician published the first chapters of The Bear Comes Home, in serialized form, beginning in 1979. Zabor resumed work on the remainder of the book after a fourteen-year hiatus, and W. W. Norton published the novel in 1997.
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