Setting Free the Bears
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Here's part of the blurb from the back:
"When the Soviet Army entered Vienna in the closing days of World War II, every animal was gone from the Vienna Zoo; they were probably eaten by the starving citizens of the city. In this historical novel of the Nazi takeover of Austria and the Soviet occupation of Vienna, the 'liberation' of the Vienna Zoo is reenacted by two Viennese university students in 1967-with both comic and gruesome consequences."
This is John Irving's first book, and I don't think it's terribly good. I'm quite glad his other books are better. However, one girl's trash is another person's treasure (or chocolate cake, or whatever), so off it goes into the wild.
"When the Soviet Army entered Vienna in the closing days of World War II, every animal was gone from the Vienna Zoo; they were probably eaten by the starving citizens of the city. In this historical novel of the Nazi takeover of Austria and the Soviet occupation of Vienna, the 'liberation' of the Vienna Zoo is reenacted by two Viennese university students in 1967-with both comic and gruesome consequences."
This is John Irving's first book, and I don't think it's terribly good. I'm quite glad his other books are better. However, one girl's trash is another person's treasure (or chocolate cake, or whatever), so off it goes into the wild.
Journal Entry 2 by skybox at Parking garage along Euclid in St. Louis, Missouri USA on Friday, January 30, 2004
Released on Friday, January 30, 2004 at Parking garage along Euclid in St Louis, Missouri USA.
I'll release this about 6:30 on a car in the parking garage along Euclid.
I'll release this about 6:30 on a car in the parking garage along Euclid.
