As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. What she discovers will change her life forever. ago Oh so when Canadians write about their zoophilic fantasies they’re given literary awards and praised for their spiritual connection. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:58:14. TIL: 'Bear' by Marian Engel is a literary award-winning novel published in 1976 about a woman in a sexual relationship with a bear en. 66 25 comments Add a Comment deleted 2 yr. The story tells of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, where she enters into a sexual relationship with a bear. It is Engels fifth novel, and her most famous. Lou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the island’s past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976.It won the Governor Generals Literary Award the same year. 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. Author Name:Marian Engel Book Genre:Adult Fiction, Animals, Canada, Canadian Literature, Classics, Cultural, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Romance ISBN 9780879236670 Edition Language:English Date of Publication: PDF File Name:Bear-MarianEngel.

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