Cover of Setting Free the Bears (Black Swan)

Setting Free the Bears (Black Swan)

by John Irving

1979 340 pages eng

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.

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