The Summer Of The Bear by Bella Pollen. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. In the summer of , a tamed grizzly bear is tempted by the lure of freedom and the wild open sea. Bella Pollen has an uncanny ability to capture the unnoticeable moments in which families grow quiet. A novel about the corrosive effects of secrets and the extraordinary imagination of youth, The Summer of the Bear is Pollen's most ambitious and affecting book yet. Membership Advantages. Reviews. "Beyond the Book" articles. The story captured the attention of the world's media and Bella Pollen and her siblings spent an exciting summer hoping to be the ones who caught the bear. This story has remained with Pollen ever since and is the Author Bella Pollen was holidaying in the Outer Hebrides in when a grizzly bear escaped from it's owners and spent 24 days roaming the tiny island of Benbecula/5.
The summer of the bear by Bella Pollen. 0 Ratings 0 Want to read; 0 Currently reading; 0 Have read; This edition was published in by Pan Books in London. Written in English — pages When a Cold War diplomat dies under suspicious circumstances and is promptly declared a mole, the man's wife relocates to a remote Scottish island, where. First things, first: The Summer of the Bear is a genuinely suspenseful, emotional story that is partly about a family torn apart by grief, uncertain what even happened to their delightful father/husband, but it's also a bit magical or mythical in combining the family's story with the tale of a bear who broke his tether and swam away from his owner. The Summer of the Bear Bella Pollen Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover pages June An unexplained suicide shapes the lives of the Fleming family in Pollen's unusual novel, the death of Nicky Fleming defining the days and nights of his wife, Letty, and their three children: Georgie, Jamie and Alba. An accomplished diplomat, Nicky's.
Book Summary. With her fifth novel, critically acclaimed writer and journalist Bella Pollen takes readers into the private dynamics of a family grappling with the loss of father and husband in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, where between elemental beauty and utter bleakness, strange forces are at play. In Germany, under Cold War tension, a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. “I devoured Bella Pollen’s The Summer of the Bear and found it to be the perfect escape.” —The Paris Review “Pollen’s lyrical and often witty prose makes this a stirring tale of loss and self-discovery.” —More “Part spy thriller and part ghost story, this book will keep you enthralled to the last page.” —The Sunday Post. Best-selling author Bella Pollen’s imaginative new novel received stellar reviews in hardcover and was chosen as a Richard Judy Book Club title. In Germany, Cold War tensions are once again escalating and a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. So when the clever diplomat Nicky Fleming dies suddenly and suspiciously, it’s convenient to brand him the traitor.
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