Given the opportunity to leave her humdrum, “mole” like existence behind, Lou – a quiet unassuming librarian – takes on a promising new challenge. Written by Marian Engel – a close literary colleague of compatriot Margaret Atwood – Bear is an adult fable that’s every bit as shocking as it could be.

So when I stumbled across this book, previously enshrined as the “most controversial novel ever written in Canada”, I had to see what all the fuss was about. Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall.Controversy and Canada rarely travel together. Valgardson / A Class of New Canadians by Clark Blaise / The Meaning of the Marriage by Cynthia Floos / Flowers for Weddings and Funerals by Sandra Birdsell / Trotsky's First Confessions by Matt Cohen / Celia Behind Me by Isabel Huggan / One Good Story, That One by Thomas King / Deer Heart by Bonnie Burnard / For Puzzled in Wisconsin by Bronwen Wallace / Swain Corliss, Hero of Malcolm's Mills (now Oakland, Ontario), Novemby Douglas Glover / Making It by Margaret Gibson / Sociologh by Katherine Govier / We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy / Dancing Bear by Guy Vanderhaeghe / The Ghost of Firozsha Baags by Rohinton Mistry / Sans Souci by Dionne Brand / Transfigurations by Janice Kulyk Keefer / Red Plaid Shirt by Diane Schoemperlen / White Shoulders by Linda Svendsen / Digging Up the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath / The Chmarnyk by Caroline Adderson / Bibliographical notes / index. Kinsella / Milk Bread Beer Ice by Carol Shields / Bear Country by Audrey Thomas / As Birds Bring Forth the Sun by Alistair MacLeod / The Black Queen by Barry Callaghan / The Years in Exile by John Metcalf / True Trash by Margaret Atwood / God is Not a Fish Inspector by W. Clarke / Share and Share Alike by Marian Engel / The Woman Who Talked to Horses by Leon Rooke / Where Is the Voice Coming From? by Rudy Wiebe / The Hayfield by George Bowering / Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Lowa by W.

Raddall / The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross / The Old Woman by Joyce Marchall / One-Two-Three Little Indians by Hugh Garner / Scarves, Beads, Sandals by Mavis Gallant / Something Happened Here by Norman Leveine / The Mark of the Bear by Margaret Laurence / The Bully by James Reaney / Getting to Williamstown by Hugh Hood / The Duel in Cluny Park by Timothy Findley / The Jack Randa Hotel by Alice Munro / The End of Summer by Jane Rule / Griff! by Austin C.

Green cloth with gilt on spine, (xv) 462 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition Contents include: Haply the Soul of My Grandmother by Ethel Wilson / All the Years of Her Life by Morley Callaghan / The Wedding Gift by Thomas H. Cover illustration 'Tenants' - Marian Dale Scott, (illustrator).

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