The Bear Went Over the Mountain

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  • 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
  • zeitgeist
  • of
  • the
  • 1990s
  • dead-on,
  • in
  • a
  • delicious
  • bedtime
  • story
  • for grown-ups.
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