A $15,000 literary prize announced by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation is going to a first novel about a bear that plays the alto saxophone.
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"The Bear Comes Home" is the work of 51-year-old Rafi Zabor, a jazz drummer and music writer who lives in New York."Encounters with living jazz legends, adventurous road trips and a shattered interspecies love affair capture the bear in a melodic story that is humanlike in both its tune and tenor," according to Thursday's announcement. The bear likes to quote Shakespeare and poet William Blake.