She was awarded a Canada Council grant on the strength of the book, but had difficulty finding a publisher for her second novel, The Honeyman Festival. Her first novel, No Clouds of Glory (later known as Sarah Bastard's Notebook), was released in 1968. Engel studied under author Hugh MacLennan, finishing her Master's of Arts at McGill University in Montreal in 1957. The book was Engel's fifth novel, and her sixth piece of published writing. The book has been called "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada". The story tells of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, where she enters into a sexual relationship with a bear. It is Engel's fifth novel, and her most famous. It won the Governor General's Literary Award the same year. Governor General's Literary Award,1976 – Fiction, Englishīear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel, published in 1976.
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