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Gruen, Sara.
Subjects
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Circus animals -- Fiction.
Circus -- Fiction.
Elephants -- Fiction.
Veterinary medicine -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
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Gruen, Sara.
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Circus animals -- Fiction.
Circus -- Fiction.
Elephants -- Fiction.
Veterinary medicine -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
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Water for elephants : a novel / Sara Gruen.
by
Gruen, Sara.
HarperCollins, c2015.
Call #:
FICTION
GRU
Subjects
Circus performers --
Fiction
.
Circus animals --
Fiction
.
Circus --
Fiction
.
Elephants --
Fiction
.
Veterinary medicine --
Fiction
.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States --
Fiction
.
Reminiscing in old age --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781443444897 (trade pbk)
Description:
335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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.
Awards:
2007 Book Sense Book of the Year.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Love stories.
Canadian
fiction
.
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