Setting Free the Bears (Ballantine Reader's Circle) - Softcover

Irving, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345417984 ISBN 13: 9780345417985

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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

"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 bigest caper of their young lives."--The New York Times

Book Description:

A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345417984
• ISBN 13: 9780345417985
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304