Bear

by Marian Engel

Published 1 January 1976

"Bear is a strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance."-- Margaret Atwood

A librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of a secretive Colonel whose most surprising secret is a bear. Even more surprising is the passion that begins to develop between the woman and the large, powerful animal.


Lunatic Villas

by Marian Engel

Published 31 December 1991