An edition of Setting Free the Bears (Black Swan)
(1979)
Setting Free the Bears
by John Irving
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Irving’s debut novel, this is set in 1960s Austria and focuses on two anarchic young Austrians on a motorcycle tour of the country whose stated aim is to free the animals from Vienna Zoo.
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American fiction (fictional works by one author), Young men, Fiction, Zoo animals, History, Historical reenactments, Fiction in English, Black humor (Literature), Jeunes hommes, Romans, nouvelles, Animaux de jardin zoologique, HistoirePlaces
Europe, Austria, Vienna (Austria)Times
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Setting Free The Bears
1991, Bloomsbury Classics, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hardcover
0747510563 9780747510567
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Setting Free the Bears
May 30, 1990, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Bks. ed.
0345367413 9780345367419
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Setting Free the Bears (Black Swan)
July 1, 1986, Bantam Doubleday Dell
Paperback
- New Ed edition
0552992062 9780552992060
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"I could find him every noon, sitting on a bench in the Rathaus Park with a small, fat bag of hothouse radishes in his lap and a bottle of beer in one hand."
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| November 13, 2021 | Edited by AgentSapphire | merge authors |
| May 7, 2021 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Merge works |
| August 6, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |