Setting Free the Bears

By John Irving
(Ballantine Books, Paperback, 9780345417985, 304pp.)

Publication Date: June 23, 1997

Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback

Categories: Literary

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It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.


From the Paperback edition.

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