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![]() ![]() She was the first chair of the Writer’s Union of Canada (1973–74) and helped found the Public Lending Right Commission. Includes a reading group guide.Ĭanadian novelist, short-story and children's fiction writer, Marian Engel was a passionate activist for the national and international writer’s cause. ![]() As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. ![]() What she discovers will change her life forever. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. Lou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the island’s past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Eager to investigate the estate’s curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other a bear. 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