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Bear

Marian Engel

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Lou, a shy and lonely librarian at an Historical Institute, is sent on a welcome field assignment to a remote island in northern Ontario to catalogue a nineteenth-century library and the documents of an eccentric, deceased colonel. Eager to reconstruct the estate's curious history, she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other inhabitant: a pet bear kept in a cabin behind the house. As Lou is drawn into the island's past and her own solitude, her relationship with the bear develops into a controversial, primal, and erotic affair, leading her along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening.