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The bear / Andrew Krivak.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781942658702 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 221 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2020.
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| Subject: | Girls > Fiction. Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Voyages and travels > Fiction. Bears > Fiction. Innocence (Psychology) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Dystopian fiction. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Kriva | 31681010193316 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Living close to the land in an Eden-like post-civilization world, a girl learns the secrets of hunting and star navigation before finding herself in an unknown landscape, where a bear imparts powerful natural-world lessons. Original. 10,000 first printing. Tour. - Baker & Taylor
"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness, which offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature's dominion"-- - Perseus Publishing
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earthâs last two human inhabitants, and a girlâs journey home
In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen.
A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of natureâs dominion.
Andrew Krivak is the author of two previous novels: The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.
- Perseus Publishing
A gorgeous fable of Earthâs last two human inhabitants, and a girlâs journey home
