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The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Bear Went Over the Mountain about?
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 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, bestselling author 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. By turns sidesplittingly funny, stingingly ironic, and unexpectedly tender, The Bear Went Over the Mountain captures the
Who reads The Bear Went Over the Mountain?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- William Kotzwinkle
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385484282
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Music
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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