Bear by marian engel movie5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Lou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the island’s past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. ![]() ![]() 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 19th-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. ![]()
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