num_pages: 340
description: 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.
language: English
title: Setting Free the Bears
titlecomplete: Setting Free the Bears
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Humor, Roman, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 10614
publisher: Ballantine Books