Title: Bear
First published: 1976
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction in English, Fiction, general, Women archivists, Fiction, Bears, Human-animal relationships, American literature, Canadian fiction, Maturation (Psychology), Emotional maturity, Sexual ethics, Canadian Science fiction, Loneliness
LC classification: PS'8559'N34'B43