Rafi Zabor è un autore che fonde senza soluzione di continuità i mondi della musica e della letteratura. Ex batterista jazz e critico musicale, porta nella sua prosa una sensibilità ritmica unica e una profonda comprensione dell'espressione artistica. La sua scrittura esplora le intricate motivazioni dei personaggi, addentrandosi spesso nei temi dell'identità e della ricerca di significato. Lo stile di Zabor è caratterizzato dalle sue immagini evocative e dalla sua capacità di catturare l'essenza dell'esperienza umana.
The protagonist is an alto-sax virtuoso navigating his musical journey while attempting to develop a unique style influenced by Coltrane and Rollins. Uniquely, he is portrayed as a bear who quotes Blake and Shakespeare, adding depth to his character. His adventures encompass musical, spiritual, and romantic elements, making this debut novel a standout exploration of jazz through an imaginative lens.
A righteously satisfying read of a thriller, metaphysical novel, and screwball comedy, from the author of The Bear Comes Home .With the twists, turns, and smash-ups of a thriller, the sudden depths of a metaphysical novel, and the fizz of a screwball comedy, Street Legal is high entertainment and a righteously satisfying read, from the author of the greatest novel ever written about a saxophone-playing bear.Street Legal features an old-time skunk dealer, sniffing the new breezes, wants to open an Old-Time Grass Business Theme Park with rides and a disco. His foot soldier, a strapping, confused kid who might be on the spectrum. A frustrated cop who isn't allowed to collar anyone important because the town needs the business who consoles himself by trying to make a last-chance bust and grab some of the action. A slick, unsettling stranger buying up properties under cover for a major tobacco company but really out for himself. A Tibetan Buddhist lama from New Jersey who sounds like Tony Soprano when discoursing on the dharma who finds his disciple, a wry, reticently sexy earth mother wracked with concern for the wayward young man who is her son.