SpinSouth: The Bear Comes Back

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

The Bear Comes Back

In 1979, Rafi Zabor started writing a story about a saxophone playing Bear who walked the streets of NYC quoting Shakespeare and playing jazz. The Bear Comes Home was published in 1997 and won the PEN/Faulkner award later that year. I read it, loved it, and made everyone I knew read it (except for Indy; she refused). I even gave a copy to David Rawlings. Anyway, Mr. Zabor is finally back with the first volume of a tetralogy called I, Wabenzi (due to be published this October by FSG).

Here's a great feature about how little his life changed after all the fuss over The Bear: washingtonpost.com

Read about the new book at the FSG page here.

For the real trainspotters, he also contributes customer reviews at amazon.com