Setting Free the Bears

By John Irving

Format:Softcover

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.

Literary & Contemporary Fiction
340 pagesSoftcover
First published 1990

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