{"product_id":"bear","title":"Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bear (Hardcover, 141 pages – Atheneum, 1976) – Atheneum, 1976. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field assignment: to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estateâ s curious history, she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear.Louâ s imagination is soon overtaken by the estateâ s historical occupants, whose fascination with bear lore becomes her own. 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, Marian Engelâ s Bear won the Governor Generalâ s Award for 1976.From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marian Engel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52369389027610,"sku":"9780689107603","price":105.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/61jG3rSGWxL._SY522.jpg?v=1781772263","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/bear","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}