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Indlæser... The Bear Comes Homeaf Rafi Zabor
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. In a nutshell:The Bear Comes Home is a story about a talking, walking, pants-wearing, saxophone-playing bear. Wrap your brain around that for a moment and then consider this: the bear is an avid reader, talks philosophy and emotionally and physically loves a woman. I knew from the inside flap this book was going to be an interesting read, especially when I read, "a vexed, physically passionate and anatomically correct inter-species love affair with a beautiful woman named Iris." Um. Okay. It's the "anatomically correct" piece that really puts it into perspective. But! Trust me when I say this is a deep book. I mean deeeep. Zabor is a little long winded when it comes to subjects he is passionate about. There are pages and page about jazz music and the musicians who perfected it, but somehow the entire thing works. The Bear is a little too angsty but considering his circumstances, stuck in the human world, who could blame him? The precocious sheen fell off of my life in the late 90s. Evidence of this can be found in the fact that I checked out this book, what, ten years ago? I read it, quickly even, and remember finding fault with the jazz references. What could i have been thinking? Please, I hope my judgment doesn't allow any such wavers in the near future. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Zabor, a jazz drummer and music journalist, introduces us to a number of real-life jazz musicians and obviously knows a lot about jazz music and the existential angst that comes from dancing and passing the hat on New York's mean streets in order to make a living in the music industry. There is the frustration of constant practice and the occasional epiphanies of creation. Most of the human characters are cool and cynical, tolerant and likeable. There is a duality about the Bear as the author explores human nature, sometimes animal sometimes saint.
I should point out at this juncture that I'm not a jazz fan so large parts of this novel left me totally perplexed and whilst I know that many jazz jams can be rambling I believe that they do have an overall structure if only a loose one. Therefore whilst the initial idea was interesting as the story progressed I found it overly verbose with far too many navel-gazing sections on the imperfections of love, art and the sleaziness of the music business. Nor did I particularly enjoy the open ended finale. That said, there are also moments of satiric genius which were enough to see me through to its conclusion however unsatisfactory. ( )