Setting Free the Bears

Setting Free the Bears

Authors

John Irving

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Document Type

Book

Description

Modern-day Quixote, to whom zoo animals' imprisonment symbolizes the persecution of his ancestors, climaxes his wanderings with the dramatic freeing of all the animals of Vienna's Hietzinger Zoo.

Publication Date

1968

Publisher

Random House

City

New York

State

NY

Award

2018 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction

Setting Free the Bears

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