![]() ![]() Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. ![]() As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. Listen to Bear by Marian Engel available from Rakuten Kobo. What she discovers will change her life forever. This is the story of a 27-year-old, lonely, woman who, alone on an island, who discovers an obsessive passionone that breaks an ancient taboo and that could very well become deadly. ![]() Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. Bear (Nonpareil Books) Paperback October 1, 2002. Lou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the island’s past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Eager to investigate the estate’s curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. 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. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. (1957) from McGill University, where she wrote her thesis, The Canadian Novel, 1921-55, under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan. (1955) from McMaster University and her M.A. She grew up in the Ontario towns of Brantford, Galt, Hamilton, and Sarnia. 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. Marian Engel was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1933. ![]()
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