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Setting Free The Bears

Setting Free The Bears

Author(s): John Irving

Location(s): Vienna

Genre(s): Humour

Era(s): 1960s

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1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in John Irving’s first novel.

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Bears, accidents, strange sexual behaviours. This book lays the bare bones for Irving’s later books

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