description: After five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estateâ€™s curious history, she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other a bear.Louâ€™s imagination is soon overtaken by the estateâ€™s historical occupants, whose fascination with bear lore becomes her own. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-discovery, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature through her bizarre and healing relationship with the bear.A daring and compelling novel, Marian Engelâ€™s Bear won the Governor Generalâ€™s Award for 1976.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: Bear
titlecomplete: Bear
genres: Fiction, Animals, Erotica, Canadian Literature, Canada, Romance, Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7313
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction
publisher: Atheneum