Rare Bantam first edition of Bear by Marian Engel.
This edition reached cult-status when its cover image was posted in 2014 on the pre-Instagram image-sharing platform Imgur, with the caption "the most fucked up romance novel in existence." In an unexpected turn of plot, the novel garnered interest and got reprinted in 2015 by McClelland and Stewart, followed in 2021 by Daunt Books.
Bear has been called, amongst others, "Canada's most controversial novel"; "an erotic masterpiece"; "unbearable" (all puns intended); a "completely nutty but oddly beguiling fantasy"; but also "a forgotten feminist gem."
