"Bear is a strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance." Those were the words of Margaret Atwood, in praise of Marian Engel's Bear, perhaps the most celebrated work of fiction about, in part, a woman's unquenchable lust for a bear.
We're fond of Engel here at Hazlitt; it is the rare author who can turn the erotic coupling between Homo sapien and Ursus arctos into a best-selling winner of the Governor General's Award for Literary Fiction.
Also, its contents are a playground for bored book designers everywhere. Like this paperback—just look at it.
