Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press Feb 11, 2020
Fiction / Coming of Age / Literary / Visionary & Metaphysical
Paperback pages 224

5.00" x 7.50"

9781942658702

The Bear

SKU: 10803

C$25.50

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 backhome 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 nature’s dominion.
Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels:The Bear;The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; andThe Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is also the author ofA Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and editor ofThe Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902–1912, which received the Louis L. Martz Prize. Krivak lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

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