Rafi Zabor
Auteur van The Bear Comes Home
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Algemene kennis
- Officiƫle naam
- Zaborovsky, Joel
- Geboortedatum
- 1946-08-22
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Brooklyn, New York, USA (birth)
- Beroepen
- jazz drummer
journalist
novelist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- PEN/Faulkner Award (1998)
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 2
- Leden
- 339
- Populariteit
- #70,285
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 8
- ISBNs
- 13
- Talen
- 3
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.… (meer)