Water for elephants
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- ISBN: 9781443406437 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1443406430 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Canada, 2010.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, February 3, 2014). |
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Subject: | Circus -- Fiction Orphans -- Fiction Depressions -- Fiction Nineteen thirties -- Fiction Circus Depressions Nineteen thirties Orphans |
Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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- HARPERCOLL
The runaway international bestseller and beloved fiction classic
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing trainâand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruenâs 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 actâand 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.