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The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto-sax virtuoso of John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins proportions. He also happens to be walking, talking, Shakespeare-quoting bear. The scion of a long line of European circus bears (and the product of an amazing roll of the genetic dice), the Bear, when we first meet him, is eking out a living doing a street dancing-bear act with his friend and keeper Jones. But what the Bear is really best at-besides making himself cosmically miserable - is blowing the sax. One day he makes a bold foray out to jam with Arthur Blythe and Lester Bowie at a New York club, thus beginning a musical (and romantic) odyssey: a semi-clandestine gig and a live album; a nightclub bust and a spell in the city's dankest jail; freedom, a recording contract, a road tour; a vexed, physically passionate, inter-species love affair with a beautiful woman named Iris. And finally, a triumphant return to a jazz club inside the Brooklyn Bridge, where the Bear plays a solo that blasts him out of the space/time continuum - and all the way back home.
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The hero of this novel is an alto-sax virtuoso of Sonny Rollins proportions. He also happens to be a walking, talking Shakespeare quoting bear. One day, after escaping his mundane role as a street dancing-bear, the Bear embarks on a musical and romantic odyssey.
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Rafi Zabor is a musical journalist and jazz drummer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 022405113X
- ISBN 13 9780224051132
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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