5/20/2023 0 Comments Bear by marian engel pages![]() ![]() As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. Pull my head off.' Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. What she discovers will change her life forever. Marian Engel Bear Kindle Edition by Marian Engel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 459 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 43.18 4 Used from 43.18 1 Collectible from 117.51 'Bear,' she cried. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. Bear by Marian Engel Lou, a cataloguer for a historical institute, is assigned to go live on an island in Northern Ontario where she will record all possessions in the estate of the late Colonel Jocelyn Cary, who has left her house and bear to the institute. 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 nineteenth-century colonel. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. 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. ![]()
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