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Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963, and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967
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Perhaps not as well known is his debut novel, Setting Free the Bears. Disaffected student Hannes Graff hooks up with free-wheeling motorcycle enthusiast Siegfried (Siggy) Javotnik and they embark on a picaresque jaunt across Austria, encountering many odd individuals, both human and otherwise, along the way.
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Jun 23, 1997 · 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.
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Setting Free the Bears : Siggy and Hannes were disenchanted students and fellow conspirators. Astride a 700cc royal Enfield motorcycle, they roamed the Austrian countryside. When Gallen, a lovely hitchhiker, joined them, they zeroed in on the Vienna Zoo--and Siggy's setting free the bears!
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Sep 5, 2023 · Setting Free the Bears is a 1968 novel written by John Irving. The main plot of this story is to free the animals from the Vienna Zoo. Irving divides his novel into three sections.
Setting free the bears by Irving, John, 1942-Publication date 1970 Topics Young men, Zoo animals Publisher New York : Ballantine Books Collection internetarchivebooks
Jun 23, 1997 · 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...
