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Loading... The Bear Went Over the Mountain: A Novel (Owl Book) (1995)by William Kotzwinkle
A delightfully funny book. I enjoyed every bit of it. A bear steals a manuscript from a professor and heads to New York. The bear then passes himself off as human. Simply a fabulous light read. (  ) SeaHolly | May 14, 2013 |  http://www.cozylittlebookjournal.com/2010/05/bear-went-over-mountain-by-william.... Hahaha! I love a good comic novel and this one was positively impossible to put down. I started out by glancing at it when I was still in the middle of reading another book and I had to put the other book on hold so I could read this one right away. It's absurdist and silly but somehow it works. I loved it! Plus, I think this is the author who went on to write the children's book, Walter the Farting Dog, so how could you go wrong? And it's a rare author who can actually have you rooting for the book thief and plagiarist! I think maybe it says something about his experiences in the publishing industry. (  ) CozyBookJournal | May 15, 2012 | Miserable University of Maine professor, Arthur Bramhall, has written a book he hopes will save him from teaching ever again. He thinks the manuscript is a winner and will make him millions. Unfortunately, the story goes up in flames when his secluded farmhouse goes up in flames. Never mind. He rewrites it practically word for word only this time it's better. In order to avoid another book ablaze he hides it in a briefcase under a tree...only to have a bear steal it. The bear reads the manuscript and knows a good story when he sees it. He travels to New York to hawk the book and ends up making movie deals and having sex with humans. While the bear (Hal Jam) becomes more human, the professor (Arthur Bramhall) becomes more animal after the loss of his manuscript. (  ) SeriousGrace | Mar 28, 2011 | In this completely ridiculous novel, a bear finds a manuscript in a briefcase and goes to New York to get it published. No one he deals with - agents, editors, hoteliers, lovers - sees that he is a bear. Instead, they see him as an eccentric genius, and because he is a "man" of few words, they dub him the new Hemingway. I'll rate this book A for enjoyment, because it is laugh-out-loud hilarious throughout. Heavy it is not. It hardly seems a novel at all, more like an extended joke, as one of the jacket blurbs suggested. If you loved the movie Being There, you might like this book, because the humor comes from the same premise: pretentious people, laden with status anxiety, investing a dumb creature with their own ideas of wisdom. ( ) CasualFriday | Jun 25, 2010 | boring, bear in business clothes. (  ) yfngoh | Apr 8, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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