280 pages
English language
Published Dec. 14, 1997 by Ballantine Books.
Setting free the bears
by John Irving
3 stars
(5 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Zoo animals -- Fiction.
- Historical reenactments -- Fiction.
- Black humor (Literature)
- Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction.