ISBN: 9781443406437

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… Mehr…

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 trainand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruens 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 actand 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. Water For Elephants: 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 trainand inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruens 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 actand 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., Harpercollins Canada<