The Bear Comes Home A Novel [Paperback]

The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto-sax virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Coltrane and Rollins. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Blake- and Shakespeare-quoting bear whose musical, spiritual, and romantic adventures add up to perhaps the best novel, ursine or human, ever written about jazz. Poignant and touching moments combine with hilarious descriptions of the bear's struggle in a story that anyone  whether familiar with jazz or not  will find compelling and entertaining. David Amram,Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: A hilarious, richly imagined bear's eye view of love, music, alienation, manhood and humanity . . . that recalls Pynchon at his most controlled.