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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006
A USA Today Bestseller
A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz

Jacob Janowski's luck had run out--orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was the Great Depression and for Jacob the circus was both his salvation and a living hell. There he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but brutal animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this group of misfits was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

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Canadian author SARA GRUEN is the author of the award-winning #1 bestselling novel Water for Elephants, as well as the bestseller Riding Lessons and Flying Changes. Gruen was born in Vancouver and raised in London, Ontario. She studied English literature at Carleton University in Ottawa. She shares her North Carolina home with her own version of a blended family: a husband, three children, four cats, two dogs, two horses, and a goat. In order to write this novel, Gruen studied linguistics and a system of lexigrams so she could communicate directly with the bonobos living at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. She now considers them to be part of her extended family and, according to the bonobos, the feeling is mutual.
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ISBN 13 9781565124998
ISBN 10 1565124995
Title Water for Elephants
Author Sara Gruen
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Algonquin Books
Year published 2006-05-26
Number of pages 335
Prizes Winner of Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction) 2007, Winner of Great Lakes Book Awards (Fiction) 2007, Winner of Alex Awards 2007, Winner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Fiction) 2007, Short-listed for Quill Awards (General Fiction) 2006
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.