EBOOK Bear

The winner of the Governor General&'s Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engel&'s most famous and most controversial novel chronicles the erotic love affair between a woman and a bear. Lou has travelled to a remote island in northern Ontario to catalogue an eccentric nineteenth-century colonel&'s library. Eager to investigate the estate&'s curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. 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 that the Washington Post calls &';a startling alive narrative of the forbidden, the unthinkable, the hardly imaginable,&' Bear is &';Canada&'s Lolita or Lady Chatterley&'s Lover&' (Globe and Mail) and one of the great Canadian novels of the twentieth century.