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Setting Free the Bears (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Setting Free the Bears

Penned By John Irving
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Setting Free the Bears (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Setting Free the Bears

Penned By John Irving
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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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Released 1968
Identifier (ISBN) 4658
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