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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.
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Setting Free the Bears, John Irving
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- Released
- 1993
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0345367413
- ISBN13
- 9780345367419
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Nature, Animals, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, USA, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Vienna, Freedom, Debut, Bears
- First published
- 1968
- Original title
- Setting Free the Bears
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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.