{"id":4505,"date":"2008-12-02T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:24:36","slug":"john-irving-setting-free-the-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/john-irving-setting-free-the-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN IRVING: SETTING FREE THE BEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description: <\/strong>Hard bound first edition in price clipped dust jacket. Some minor edge wear, otherwise very good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller inventory #<\/strong> 11343<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/irvingbears1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4508\" title=\"irvingbears1\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/irvingbears1-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/irvingbears1-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/irvingbears1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Setting Free the Bears<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Irving, John<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Irving&#8217;s first novel is a dark comic story of two students who conspire to liberate the animals from the Vienna zoo. The story is loosly based on a an actual incident from the last days of World War II. Many of the themes of Irving&#8217;s later work are explored here; the absurdity of existence, the idealism of youth, and the ever present dark veil of looming catrosphe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Hard bound first edition in price clipped dust jacket. Some minor edge wear, otherwise very good. Bookseller inventory # 11343 SOLD Setting Free the Bears Irving, John John Irving&#8217;s first novel is a dark comic story of two students who conspire to liberate the animals from the Vienna zoo. The story is loosly based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15240,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/15240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}