Setting Free the Bears
John Irving
304 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0345417984
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Language: English
Publish: 867049200000
AmericanClassicsContemporaryFictionHumorLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsRomanThe United States Of America
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.