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setting free the bears
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 . p from the paperback edition .
paperback ballantine books 1997 isbn 0345417984
abridged n isbn 13 9780345417985 number of pages 280 publisher random house inc release date 1061856000000