Setting Free the Bears
304 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1968
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ISBN: 9780345417985
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication date: 23 June 1997
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.