Setting free the bears.

335 pages

English language

Published Dec. 14, 1969 by Random House.

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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.

9 editions

Subjects

  • Young men -- Fiction.
  • Zoo animals -- Fiction.
  • Historical reenactments -- Fiction.
  • Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction.