The Bear
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846557200 (1846557208)
Publish date: February 13th 2014
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Survival,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Animals,
Horror,
Canada
Prior to reading this book, I had seen a review or two, which piqued my interest in the book. And when I was able to sit down with the book and read it, I basically ripped through the book and could really feel the intensity of the kids trying to get help. It took me a couple times to read the beg...
This review originally appeared as part of Pageturners: sometimes mysterious on Buried.In.Print. The perspective in The Bear is five-year-old Anna’s; imagine hers to be the larger silhouette on the cover, with her nearly-three-year-old brother in tow. Imagine her to be tugging him away from the ...
Latest review for Liz Loves Books from lovely daughter Mel :) With thanks to Harvill Secker for the competition copy. Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is almost three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. It's the perfect fa...
Young siblings Anna and Alex (aka Sticky) are on their own. Their parents will meet them back on the mainland, once they've healed from injuries caused by a "black dog". Or will they? Anna rows the boat, as the novel transitions from thriller to survivalist.Whilst the first part is confusing but eng...
THE BEAR is an emotional heavy-hitter, if you can push through two-hundred pages of narrative told in the voice of a five-year-old. It is hard reading, but the payoff may be worth it. Your call. Here’s a sample: “No one comes and all the parents are mad and gone away and I am not supposed to scre...
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