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Water for elephants : a novel / Sara Gruen.

by Gruen, Sara.

HarperCollins, c2015.

Circus performers -- Fiction.

Circus animals -- Fiction.

Circus -- Fiction.

Elephants -- Fiction.

Veterinary medicine -- Fiction.

Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Fiction.

Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.

9781443444897 (trade pbk)

335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train-and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable elephant named Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the star of the equestrian act-and wife of August, a charismatic but cruel animal trainer. Caught between his love for Marlena and his need to belong in the crazy family of travelling performers, Jacob is freed only by a murderous secret that will bring the big top down. Water for Elephants is an enchanting page-turner, the kind of book that creates a world that engulfs you from the first page to the last."--Publisher.

2007 Book Sense Book of the Year.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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