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| Author | Marian Engel |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Published | 1976 |
| Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Pages | 141 |
| Awards | Governor General's Literary Award,1976 – Fiction, English |
| ISBN | 9780771030802 |
| OCLC | 2507467 |
Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976. It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. The story tells of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, where she enters into a sexual relationship with a bear.[1][2] The Canadian Encyclopedia calls the book "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada".[3]
- ^ ""Bear" Is About Much More Than Having Sex with a Bear". The New Yorker. April 5, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
- ^ Verduyn, Christl (2019). "Scratching the Surface: Marian Engel's 1970s Writing". Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne. 44 (2): 81–100. doi:10.7202/1070956ar. ISSN 0380-6995. S2CID 225510107.
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