Setting Free the Bears [Lingua Inglese]: A Novel - Brossura

Irving, John

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ISBN 10: 0345417984 ISBN 13: 9780345417985

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1997

Riassunto

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.

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Recensione:

“Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.”—Time

“Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.”—Saturday Review

“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 bigest caper of their young lives.”—The New York Times

L'autore:

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules—a film with seven Academy Award nominations.

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345417984
• ISBN 13: 9780345417985
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304