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BearBear

Bear1976

Marian Engel, Marian Engel, marian engel

3.0(17)on Hardcover

About this book

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.

Details

First published
1976
OL Work ID
OL5280446W

Subjects

Fiction in EnglishFiction, generalWomen archivistsFictionBearsHuman-animal relationshipsAmerican literatureCanadian fictionMaturation (Psychology)Emotional maturitySexual ethicsCanadian Science fictionLoneliness

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