The Bear Comes Home
by Zabor, Rafi
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393040372
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040371
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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Synopsis
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. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010376
- Title
- The Bear Comes Home
- Author
- Zabor, Rafi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393040372
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040371
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NEW YORK N Y FICTION MUSICIANS SAXOPHONE CIRCUS BEARS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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