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Bear
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The Winner Of The Governor General’s Literary Award For Fiction, Marian Engel’s Most Famous – And Most Controversial – Novel Tells The Unforgettable Story Of A Woman Transformed By A Primal, Erotic Relationship. 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 Nineteenth-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. Irresistibly, 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. As Provocative And Powerful Now As When It Was First Published. Includes A Reading Group Guide.
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Change and growMinor characters stand outMorally ambiguousOriginalSlow start, strong finishUnpredictableBeautifulEvocative imageryIdyllicImmersive world-buildingLushPicturesqueVivid descriptionsBeautifully-writtenFlowery/lushTakes getting used toWhimsical toneAnimal abuseExplicit sexual contentSelf-harm
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