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The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1995)

par William Kotzwinkle

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:Once upon a time in rural Maine, a big black 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 couldnâ??t eat it, but he did read it, and decided it wasnâ??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, bestselling author William Kotzwinkle limns Halâ??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
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Have read multiple times and each time it brings me to tears with laughter. Kotzwinkle is an excellent, un-demanding storyteller. ( )
  invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 |
An English Professor in Maine writes a novel and hides it in a briefcase in the woods because his last novel burned in a cabin fire. A bear finds the briefcase, likes the novel, claims it as his own and travels to New York – after breaking into a store for clothes - to get an agent. Of course it’s published to high acclaim, the bear is a sensation, and no one notices he’s a bear. It’s a beautifully ridiculous story and entertaining throughout, but it’s not fluff. There are lessons about ambition and truth and hard luck. ( )
  Hagelstein | Jul 26, 2018 |
A tremendously funny satire of the publishing world. A bear finds a briefcase in the woods that contains a manuscript. He takes a pseudonym and turns in the book under his new name. It's an overnight hit, and no one seems to notice that the author isn't human. ( )
  Mrs_McGreevy | Nov 17, 2016 |
Not for kids. Maybe only 3.5 stars - weird. ( )
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |
The moral of "The Bear Went Over the Mountain," William Kotzwinkle's 1996 comic fantasy novel, is about the same as that of "Big Eyes," the new Tim Burton film: Only the precious few can create art, but anyone can pretend to be an artist.

In Kotzwinkle's literary fable, a Maine bear who has become a people watcher and wishes he could become a person himself, gets his chance when he finds a briefcase containing a manuscript for a novel, "Destiny and Desire," by Arthur Bramhall. The bear has taught himself to read from the labels on human food, and he thinks it's a pretty good book. The publishing world thinks so, too, and soon Hal Jam (the bear names himself after one of his favorite foods) finds himself the acclaimed author of a best seller.

The story owes a debt to "Being There," Jerzy Kosinski's terrific 1970 novel that was made into an equally terrific film. In that book, Chance is the simple-minded gardener who dresses in his employer's hand-me-down clothes. When his benefactor dies, Chance is turned out of the estate, but he looks so fine in his expensive suits he is taken for a wealthy businessman, and his simple statements about gardening and television shows are taken as words of great wisdom. We get a lot of that in "The Bear Went Over the Mountain." Hal Jam talks mostly about food and his life in the Maine woods, but his listeners invariably interpret his words as something else entirely.

Kotzwinkle loses his readers' attention a bit whenever his story strays from Hal Jam back to Arthur Bramhall. Even so, it proves interesting when Bramhall turns gradually into a bear while the bear morphs into a human being. ( )
  hardlyhardy | Feb 11, 2015 |
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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:Once upon a time in rural Maine, a big black 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 couldnâ??t eat it, but he did read it, and decided it wasnâ??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, bestselling author William Kotzwinkle limns Halâ??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

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