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The Bear Comes Home

The Bear Comes Home

The Bear Comes Home

The Bear Comes Home

by Zabor, Rafi

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  • Hardcover
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ISBN 10
0393040372
ISBN 13
9780393040371
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About This Item

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. First edition [1997] of this author's first novel. Light orange boards with black cloth spine, 480 pages, dustjacket. The book has some minimal edge rubbing, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with a name on the front free endpaper and a small corner chip to the title page. The mylar protected dustjacket has some very light soil to the rear panel, no chips or tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 (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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