Setting Free the Bears (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by John Irving

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'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-filled motorbike tour of Austria as they prepare for "the great zoo bust." But their grand scheme will have both comic and gruesome consequences, as they are soon to find out...

  • ISBN10 0394444965
  • ISBN13 9780394444963
  • Publish Date 1 December 1968
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 May 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Random House Trade
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English