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  Water for Elephants

 
Water for Elephants
Author:    Sara Gruen
ISBN:    9781741752953
ISBN-10:    1741752957
Publisher:    Allen & Unwin
Date Published:    1/10/2007
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    408
Language:    English
RRP: $23.95
PRICE: $22.51
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Book Description:
This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the early 1930s. It's a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves and fat ladies, horses and elephants - or to be more specific, one elephant, Rosie, star of Benzini Bros Most Spectacular Show on Earth ...When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression.A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that Jacob meets Marlena, the beautiful equestrienne who is married to August, a charismatic but violently unpredictable animal trainer. Jacob also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems unmanageable until he discovers an unusual way to reach her. Water for Elephantsis a story that has it all - warmth, humour, poignancy and passion. It has an energy and spirit like the feeling under a big top when the show is about to begin. It is a novel that will win your heart.


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Review by Bec 
Jacob Jankowski sits in a nursing home, of little significance to his family or to those around him. He reflects on a time when his life had colour, love and the circus.

This tale weaves around you until you can almost touch the sawdust in the ring, see the America of the 20's & 30's, and hear the train's whistle. It broke my heart to have to finish this breath-taking book, I loved it.

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