could you mention a few other works by her?
No Clouds of Glory, Inside the Easter Egg, The Tattooed Woman, Adventures of Moon Bay Towers
Marian Engel
Marian Engel's first published novel, "No Clouds of Glory", was published in 1968. Later reissued in the United States as "Sarah Bastard's Notebook" (1974), the work challenged traditional notions of female identity by using a fragmented approach to the subjective narrative that mirrored entries in a notebook.

Engel's most famous and controversial novel was "Bear" (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear. Her editor at Harcourt Brace rejected the manuscript noting that: "Its relative brevity coupled with its extreme strangeness presents, I'm afraid, an insuperable obstacle in present circumstances." It was eventually published by McClelland & Stewart after being championed by Robertson Davies. It won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 1976.

"Inside the Easter Egg" (1975) and her posthumous "The Tattooed Woman" (1985) were collections of short stories. Some of these short stories had originally been written for Robert Weaver's CBC radio program "A
who wrote the novel, bear? Marian Engel where is the novel set? District of Algoma in northeastern Ontario. who is the main character? Lou (who is a 27-year-old librarian) any other characters? Homer Campbell, Lucy Leroy could you please summarize the plot in a few words? A lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear. how was this received ? The most controversial novel ever written in Canada; mostly received well by critics;  Engel's writing craft was admired
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Marian Engel [SEP] Writing
Marian Engel's first published novel, "No Clouds of Glory", was published in 1968. Later reissued in the United States as "Sarah Bastard's Notebook" (1974), the work challenged traditional notions of female identity by using a fragmented approach to the subjective narrative that mirrored entries in a notebook. Engel's most famous and controversial novel was "Bear" (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear. Her editor at Harcourt Brace rejected the manuscript noting that: "Its relative brevity coupled with its extreme strangeness presents, I'm afraid, an insuperable obstacle in present circumstances." It was eventually published by McClelland & Stewart after being championed by Robertson Davies.