{"product_id":"setting-free-the-bears-a-novel-ballantine-readers-circle-0345417984","title":"Setting Free the Bears: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0345417984\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Irving, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.-TimeAstonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.-Saturday ReviewIt is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles-on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old.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.-The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51536002220320,"sku":"NEW0345417984","price":17.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71Wh38ESZjL.jpg?v=1777401088","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/setting-free-the-bears-a-novel-ballantine-readers-circle-0345417984","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}