| Setting Free the Bears Contributor(s): Irving, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345417984 ISBN-13: 9780345417985 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97093209 |
| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.54" W x 8.26" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 |