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Bear

Marian Engel

1976141 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1976
first published
  • 1976McClelland and Stewart · 141 pages · ENGISBN 9780771030802
  • 1976Atheneum · 141 pages · ENGISBN 9780689107603
  • 1977Routledge and Kegan Paul · 141 pages · ENGISBN 9780710086037
  • 1982McClelland and Stewart · 144 pages · ENGISBN 9780771093227
  • 1988Pandora · 141 pages · ENGISBN 9780863583124
  • 1990McClelland & Stewart Ltd · 152 pages · ENGISBN 9780771099588
  • 1992La Tartarura edizioni · 144 pagesISBN 9788877380944
  • 2003David R Godine · 144 pages · ENGISBN 9780879236670

Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric 19th-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the island's past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Irresistably, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. What she discovers will change her life forever.

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