Bear (Nonpareil books)

by Marian Engel

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Canonical Title

Bear

Original publication date

1976

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Awards and honors

Governor General's Literary Award (Fiction, 1976)

Epigraph

"Facts become art through love, which unifies them and lifts them to a higher plane of reality; and in landscape, this all-embracing love is expressed by light."
Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art

Dedication

First words

In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.

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Margaret Atwood

Robertson Davies

Margaret Laurence

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0879236671, Paperback)

a mousy, timid librarian is summoned to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of Colonel Cary, who, she learns soon enough, had a number of secrets. But the most surprising and enduring secret is a pet bear. In thirty pages, the reticent librarian meets the not so reticent bear and wonders if it would be good company. It is good company indeed. Intimate company. Shocking company.

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