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The winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engel's most famous - and most controversial - novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed by a primal, erotic relationship. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric nineteenth-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the island's past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. What she discovers will change her life forever. As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. Includes a reading group guide.… (más)
La joven e introvertida Lou abandona su trabajo como bibliotecaria cuando se le encarga catalogar la biblioteca de una mansión victoriana situada en una remota isla canadiense, propiedad de un enigmático coronel. Ansiosa por reconstruir la curiosa historia de la casa, pronto descubre que la isla tiene otro habitante: un oso. Cuando se da cuenta de que este es el único que puede proporcionarle algo de compañía, surgirá entre ellos una extraña relación. Una relación íntima. Inquietante. Nada ambigua. Gradualmente, Lou se va convenciendo de que el oso es el compañero perfecto, y emprende un camino de autodescubrimiento. En todos los sentidos.
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"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
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.
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It was a brilliant night, all star-shine, and overhead the Great Bear and his thirty-seven thousand virgins kept her company.
The winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Marian Engel's most famous - and most controversial - novel tells the unforgettable story of a woman transformed by a primal, erotic relationship. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric nineteenth-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the island's past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Irresistibly, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. What she discovers will change her life forever. As provocative and powerful now as when it was first published. Includes a reading group guide.
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