Water For Elephants
On Sale: 05/05/2015
Water For Elephants
On Sale: 05/05/2015
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About the Book
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.
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9781443444897
- ISBN 10: 1443444898
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 05/05/2015
- Pages: 352
- List Price:21.00 CAD
- BISAC1 : FICTION / General