Setting Free the Bears

"The most nourishing, satisfying novel I have read in years. I admire the hell out of it" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. This "sensual, moving, truly remarkable novel" ("Time") was written between 1965 and 1967. It concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo. "Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot-rod through Mr irving's book, tossing flowers, stealing salt-shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives" ("New York Times") Essential reading for all john Irving fans, here is a mouth-watering foretaste of "The Pension Grillparzer" in "The World According to Garp" and to the Berry Family's journey to Vienna in "The Hotel New Hampshire" "Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world really is the world according to everyone" "Time"