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Water For Elephants

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The runaway international bestseller and beloved fiction classicOrphaned 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 beginsWater 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.

Product Overview
ISBN 9781443444897
Categories Bestseller, Fiction, Romance
Author(s) Sara Gruen
Publisher Harper
Weight 0.32 kg