Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976. It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous.

Feb 6, 2006 · Bear, by Marian Engel (Toronto, 1976), winner of the Governor-General's Award, has been called the most controversial novel ever written in Canada because of its heroine's …

Jan 9, 2021 · Marian Engel's 1976 novel Bear, which tells the story of a relationship between a woman and her ursine lover, has been called one of the most controversial books in the …

Jan 1, 2001 · Lou, a shy and secretive young librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of the recently deceased Colonel Cary. In a cabin on the island, she …

Bear is a book by Canadian author Marian Engel. It was published in 1976 by McClelland & Stewart. [1] It is about an archivist named Lou who is sent to Northern Ontario to look after a …

Aug 3, 2023 · Present them with Marian Engel’s 1976’s Bear, in which the main female character—in a unironic, non-satirical manner—initiates a sexual affair with a bear as part of …

Apr 5, 2021 · Marian Engel’s classic novel, first published in 1976, is slim, elegant, and inexhaustible. For a teen-age girl who wanted to understand sex, the nineteen-eighties, in …

Lou is a shy and secretive twenty-seven-year-old librarian living a lonely life in her dusty basement office. When she is summoned to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate …

I recently read Marian Engel's Bear after seeing it referred to as a classic Canadian novel. Here is the description of the book: The story tells of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, …

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 …