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Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963, and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967
- John Irving
- 1968
Disaffected student Hannes Graff hooks up with free-wheeling motorcycle enthusiast Siegfried (Siggy) Javotnik and they embark on a picaresque jaunt across Austria, encountering many odd individuals, both human and otherwise, along the way.
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Jun 23, 1997 · Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old.
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May 30, 1990 · Nazis and ill-tempered Asiatic bears, Communists and geleda baboons systematically intersect in John Irving's deliberately schizophrenic debut novel, Setting Free The Bears. Set in 1960s Vienna, some 20 years after the war, where the narrator, a college student Hannes Graff first meets the cryptic Siegfried "Siggy" Javotnik.
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Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old.
May 15, 2018 · Setting Free the Bears: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Kindle Edition. by John Irving (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.9 184 ratings. See all formats and editions. Kindle Edition. $10.99 Read with our free app. Hardcover. $18.02 7 Used from $18.02.
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Jun 23, 1997 · Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old.
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