Setting Free the Bears: A Novel UPDATE:Default Title whose Middle Passage won the

whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award

and explains the true purpose of their notorious hoarding habits

leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives

It is ultimately a book about the lies we tell ourselves and the realities we manufacture in others

from one Easter season to the next

Setting Free the Bears: A Novel UPDATE:Default Title whose Middle Passage won theAuthor Contributor(s): Irving, John Publisher: Ballantine Books Date: 6 23 1997 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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 It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their