As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. What she discovers will change her life forever. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. 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. She works monotonous and dusty hours long into the night but she has found nothing. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage 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. The winner of the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engels most famous and most controversial novel tells the unforgettable story.
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