Setting Free the Bears

A Novel

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  • **“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
  • ReviewIt
  • is
  • 1967.
  • 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.**“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
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