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Author Gruen, Sara.

Title Water for elephants : a novel / Sara Gruen.

Imprint Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Fiction  F Gru    ---  Available
 FSCC Fiction  F G922w 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description 350 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note Includes "A conversation with the author" and "Book-group discussion questions."
Summary A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.--From publisher description.
Study Program AR RL 4th 14.0 PHS
Subject Circus -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Love stories.
ISBN 9781565125605
1565125606
Standard No. YDXCP 2504803

 
    
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