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gaimanite.pkat
Since: Nov, 2013
14th Mar, 2017 07:02:49 PM
The Bear Went Over The Mountain by William Kotzwinkle?
PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
MikeK
Since: Jan, 2001
16th Mar, 2017 09:54:50 PM
That's it thanks.
Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.
The premise of the book was that an aspiring author went to a remote cabin in the woods to work on his first novel without any distractions, and one day a bear gets into the cabin and takes, among other things, a briefcase with his manuscript in it. By the time the writer makes it back to civilization, the bear has already come to the city and inadvertently taken credit for his work. The rest of the plot deals with the bear being put on a tour to promote the book and the writer trying to expose the bear and get credit for his work. Aside from satirizing the book industry, a lot of the humor comes from the fact that no one seems to see through the bear's Paper-Thin Disguise other than the writer: The bear has somehow learned to speak a few words of English, and walks upright, but is otherwise very obviously a bear wearing human clothes, and yet the public just sees him as an eccentric genius.
Edited by MikeK