Ebook {Epub PDF} Bear by Marian Engel

 · “Bear” Is About Much More Than Having Sex with a Bear Marian Engel’s classic novel, first published in , is slim, elegant, and inexhaustible. By Claire Cameron. This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself. Bear was first published in and won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction. The novel has retained its power to shock, disturb, and move readers today/5(). This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself. Bear was first 3/5(4).

Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear. [1] Her editor at Harcourt Brace rejected the manuscript noting that: "Its relative brevity coupled with its extreme strangeness presents, I'm afraid, an insuperable obstacle in present circumstances.". Marian Engel was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous, and controversial, novel was Bear, a story of erotic love between a librarian and a bear. Product details. Publisher ‏: ‎ David R. Godine, Publisher; First Printing edition (October 1, ). Bear. Engel. Submitter: This is a controversial tale of two star crossed lovers. Taking place in the cold landscapes of Canada, this bizarre love story goes where most books don't. You will explore themes of love like never before. That is, if you can muster up the courage to open the cover.

Bear is essentially a (transforming) summer-in-the-life novel. Canadian librarian Lou works at the Historical Institute, and when the legal wranglings about the disposition of an estate are finally over she is charged with assessing what exactly the Institute has inherited, and how it might be utilized. Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. The story tells of a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear. Bear by Marian Engel, review: This human-bear love story is a forgotten feminist gem. There is much to recommend a novel that can be read in a number of ways. Crowned Canada’s most controversial.