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WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE - The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Title: The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Description: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. Paperback. Pp: 320. Once upon a time in rural Maine, a big bear found a briefcase under a tree. Hoping for food, he dragged it into the woods, only to find that all it held was the manuscript of a novel. He couldn't eat it, but he did read it, and decided it wasn't bad. Borrowing some clothes from a local store, and the name Hal Jam from the labels of his favorite foods, he headed to New York to seek his fortune in the literary world. Then he took America by storm. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' is a riotous, magical romp with the buoyant Hal Jam as he leaves the quiet, nurturing world of nature for the glittering, moneyed world of man. With a pitch-perfect comic voice and an eye for social satire to rival Swift or Wolfe, William Kotzwinkle limns Hal's hilarious journey to New York, Los Angeles, and the great sprawling country in between, where a bear makes good despite his animal instincts, and where money-hungry executives see not a hairy beast with a purloined novel, but a rough-hewn, soulful, media-perfect nature guy who just might be the next Hemingway. ISBN: 9780805054385. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780805054385

Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2420798

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