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Setting Free the Bears
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Setting Free the Bears

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  • John Irving
    John Irving
    / First novels and The World According to Garp

    Setting Free the Bears, begun as his master’s thesis, was published in 1968. The novel, a latter-day picaresque, charts the exploits of two college dropouts as they journey through Austria by motorcycle and plot the liberation of the titular bruins and other denizens of the…

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    Setting Free the Bears, begun as his master’s thesis, was published in 1968. The novel, a latter-day picaresque, charts the exploits of two college dropouts as they journey through Austria by motorcycle and plot the liberation of the titular bruins and other denizens of the…

    Read More