Setting Free the Bears

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Literary, Historical
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Author: John Irving ISBN: 9781984800084
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication: May 15, 2018
Imprint: Ballantine Books Language: English
Author: John Irving
ISBN: 9781984800084
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication: May 15, 2018
Imprint: Ballantine Books
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

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**“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

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