{"product_id":"9780771093225","title":"Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute, Lou is given a welcome field to catalogue a nineteenth-century library, improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estate’s curious history, she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other a bear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the estate’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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA daring and compelling novel, Marian Engel’s Bear won the Governor General’s Award for 1976.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marian Engel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42403901767840,"sku":"9780771093227","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/image_dd94f671-991f-4cd3-98cc-d2e8c128f0b8.jpg?v=1764469226","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780771093225","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}