The novel has retained its power to shock, disturb, and move readers today.
This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself.īear was first published in 1976 and won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. She sinks her fingers into the bear's fur-and soon realizes her darkest desire is for this large, powerful animal to be her lover.īut there's more to the story than the price to be paid for forbidden passion. Fascinated, Lou brings the bear into the house and slowly gains the animal's trust. In a cabin on the island, she discovers the colonel had a secret as well. (1955) from McMaster University and her M.A. She grew up in the Ontario towns of Brantford, Galt, Hamilton, and Sarnia. Lou, a shy and secretive young librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of the recently deceased Colonel Cary. Marian Engel was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1933. "A quietly sensual, feminist story."- The New Yorker A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, set during the legendary summer of 1976, INSTRUCTIONS.
This is the story of a 27-year-old, lonely, woman who, alone on an island, who discovers an obsessive passion-one that breaks an ancient taboo and that could very well become deadly. Marian Engel was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1933.
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