{"product_id":"bear-9780689107603","title":"Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter five years buried like a mole amid the decaying maps and manuscripts of an historical institute  Lou is given a welcome field assignment: to catalogue a nineteenth-century library  improbably located in an octagonal house on a remote island in northern Ontario. Eager to reconstruct the estate s curious history  she is unprepared for her discovery that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear.  Lou s imagination is soon overtaken by the estate s historical occupants  whose fascination with bear lore becomes her own. Irresistibly  Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-discovery  as she explores the limits of her own animal nature through her bizarre and healing relationship with the bear.  A daring and compelling novel  Marian Engel s Bear won the Governor General s Award for 1976.  From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651700645941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0689107609","price":388.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780689107603.jpg?v=1781837539","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bear-9780689107603","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}