The Bear Comes Home (1944)

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Hardcover, 478 pages Published: 1979 Edition: W. W. Norton & Company (1997) PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1998) 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