Water for Elephants
Language: English
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Dec 1, 2010
Words:
107571
Flesch:
95.68
DDC:
813.6
FAST Tags:
Romance fiction,
Triangles (Interpersonal relations),
Circus,
Depressions,
Circus performers,
Elephants,
Parents--Death,
Circus animals
LCC:
PS3607.R696
LC Genre:
Literature>American and Canadian>21st Century
Book Details
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Description:
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 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.