After five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field assignment: 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 inhabitant: 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.

Bear

Literature & Fiction

Marian Engel

Action & Adventure

Atheneum

Literary

Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC

McClelland and Stewart

SHIVERS: House Party at Smoky Island; August; Coffins for Two; The Money Box; The Charlottetown Banquet; The Prophetess; Under the Elms; O.R.3; The Country Doctor; Chips; The Perdu; About Effie; The Fighting Spirit; Lavender Lady; Ghost of Firozsha Baag

Robertson Davies

Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Karen Wehrstein

TIMOTHY FINDLEY

Ioannou, Greg

Robin Skelton

Missen, Lynne (editors) (L. M. Montgomery

Vincent Starret

Elaine Driedger

Francis Owen

Gail Herbert

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

Stoddart+publishing

A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's pursuit of writing and offer another glimpse of the author of Two Solitudes.

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence

History

Hugh.Maclennan

Americas

University of Ottawa Press

"Bear is a strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance."― Margaret Atwood
 A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel whose most surprising secret is a bear. Even more surprising is the passion that begins to develop between the woman and the large, powerful animal.

Bear (Nonpareil Books)

ENGEL, Marian

David R. Godine, Publisher

Bär.

Unionsverlag

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