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Setting Free The Bears
  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552992060
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Setting Free The Bears

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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

'Truly remarkable. . . a complex and moving novel' Time
'A wonderfully fresh, wildly imaginative notion of a book' Kirkus
'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' The New York Times
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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...
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What readers are saying:

'Great'
'Excellent'
'Irving's mastery of the written English language is a delight'
'One of the best writers in the world'
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  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552992060
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

John Irving

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules – a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com
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Praise for Setting Free The Bears

The most nourishing, satisfying novel I have read in years. I admire the hell out of it

Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Sensual, moving, truly remarkable

Time

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 biggest caper of their young lives

The New York Times