6/29/2023 0 Comments Bear book marian engelWe’re talking about Bear right now, though, because someone recently posted its cover and some particularly raunchy sections of the book to Imgur under the title, “ WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, CANADA?” There was even a little boost in e-book sales after the book’s cover-an illustration of a lithe, topless woman with flowing brunette locks being embraced from behind by a bear standing on its hind legs-went viral. The second thing you need to know, however, is that this is not some fringe underground chapbook: it won the Governor General’s award-the highest Canadian honour for the literary arts-in a year in which the jury included Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro. There’s more to it than that, but why bury the lead? Not a metaphorical, figurative, concept-within-a-creature bear: a real, furry, wild brown bear. The first thing you need to know about Marian Engel’s 1976 novel Bear is that it is about a woman who has sex with a giant bear. In lieu of the blurb, here’s Sara Bynoe at Hazlitt on Bear: I can’t remember where or how I read about Marian Engel’s 1976 novel Bear, but I was intrigued.
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