![]() ![]() She was the first chair of the Writer’s Union of Canada (1973–74) and helped found the Public Lending Right Commission. Shocking company.Ĭanadian novelist, short-story and children’s fiction writer, Marian Engel was a passionate activist for the national and international writer’s cause. 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. But the most surprising and enduring secret is a pet bear. Her last, best known, and most controversial book was Bear (winner of the Governor-General’s Award) in which a mousy, timid librarian is summoned to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of Colonel Cary, who, she learns soon enough, had any number of secrets. Marian engel, who died in 1985 after a tragic struggle with cancer, was among Canada’s most celebrated and beloved novelists. English Book Club Ciervo Blancoin Madrid :īook Reading and Discussion in English about the novel Bearby Marian Engel ![]()
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