The Bear - Hardcover

Cameron, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031623012X ISBN 13: 9780316230124

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 2014

Synopsis

Fleeing her family's campsite in the wake of a bear attack that has left their parents dead, 5-year-old Anna and her younger brother struggle to survive hunger and the elements in the dangerous wilderness. By the award-winning author of The Line Painter. 20,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Stylistically impressive and deeply moving" (Glamour)

"A taut and touching story of how a child’s love and denial become survival skills" (Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat)

"This expertly crafted novel could do for camping what Jaws did for swimming.This agonizing odyssey of loss and being lost also has humor...The book’s anguished yet hopeful ending provides a touching terminus for Anna and Stick’s journey to adulthood" (People)

"Read this book in one sitting...taut and engrossing look at an essential web of connected questions: How children think, how families work, how we relate to nature at its most brutal and how we process grief and trauma... Unforgettable." (Globe and Mail)

"An emotional tour de force. Claire Cameron’s The Bear offers us an unforgettable child-narrator who propels us through a story as unsettling as it is bone-chilling, and as suspenseful as it is moving" (Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and The End of Everything)

Book Description:

Mummy never yells. Mostly not ever. Except sometimes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 031623012X
• ISBN 13: 9780316230124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221