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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. From the... read more

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I could find him every noon, sitting on a bench in the Rathaus Park with a small, fat bag of hothouse radishes in his lap and a bottle of beer in one hand.

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  1. John Irving (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1968
ISBN: 0-345-21812-4
Page Count: 335

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  • Library of Congress: PZ4.I714 Se PS3559.R8
  • Dewey: 813.54

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