# The Bear - Paperback

by **Andrew Krivak** (Author)

_**From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home**_

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 back home 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 two previous novels: _The Signal Flame_, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and _The Sojourn_, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in _The Bear_.

### Author Biography

**Andrew Krivak** is the author of three novels: _The Bear_, a Mountain Book Competition winner, Massachusetts Book Awards winner, and NEA Big Read selection; _The Signal Flame_, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and _The Sojourn_, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is also the author of the poetry collection _Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves_ and the memoir _A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life_, as well as the editor of _The 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.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN

**Publication Date:** February 11, 2020

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