The Bear Comes Home
Rafi Zabor
W. W. Norton & Company
<p>PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1998)<br></p><p>The story of a saxophone-playing bear. A former circus performer, the bear was acquired by its owner in a poker game. The bear can talk and the novel follows its career in a New York jazz club where it discusses music with other players and falls in love with a woman</p>