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Setting Free the Bears
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Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle
HumorHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0345417984
ISBN13: 9780345417985
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jun 23 1997
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345417985
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jun 23 1997
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.--Time
Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.--Saturday Review
It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles--on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old. Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey . . . and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot rod through Mr. Irving's book . . . tossing flowers, stealing salt shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives.--The New York Times
Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.--Saturday Review
It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles--on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old. Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey . . . and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot rod through Mr. Irving's book . . . tossing flowers, stealing salt shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives.--The New York Times
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