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Title: It is a debut of the GIANT
Review: Debut book by John Irving is disappointing only when you have previously read all others, like I did. The story is about Vienna (a recurring theme in all of his prose) and misery of the postwar aftermath with foreign occupants. The Viennese Zoo animals were released and eaten at the end of the war. Irving fantasizes about this event. I could not manage to finish the book, however. He is a talented novelist, but I should have switched the order of reading and start with "Bears". After all others, I am not able to recommend the book even to myself.
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