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Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Paperback)

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Paperback)


by Gruen, Sara
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    Jacob Jankowski tells how he became an animal trainer in a circus and fell in love with Marlena and the delightful Rosie the elephant.
 
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Jacob Jankowski who is 90 years old and living in a nursing home tells how, orphaned and penniless during the Great Depression, he became an animal trainer in a circus. In his days with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, he falls in love with the beautiful performer Marlena and the delightful Rosie the elephant.

  • Author: Gruen, Sara
  • ISBN: 9781565125605
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 350
  • Publish Date: 4/9/2007
  • Publisher: Algonquin Books
  • Language: English

Author:
Gruen, Sara
ISBN:
9781565125605
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
350
Publish Date:
05/01/2007
Publisher:
Algonquin Books

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      This was an unusual book . I wasn't sure I would like it since it was about a boy who quit veterinary school to join a circus after his parents died, and he couldn't continue his schooling at Harvard. However, it was an engrossing book involving a great cast of characters and a sweet love story which should also appeal to animal lovers. I loved the ending - not what I expected. We should all have an ending like his.

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      I laughed, cried, got angry, and every other emotion right along with these characters! I wasn't sure at first, but Jill told me to persevere and I am so glad I did. This is definitely a different kind of story with a lot of descriptive scenes and perfectly worded chapters. I was so happy by the end of the story that I didn't even want to get out of the car. I wanted to let it all soak in. Very good!

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  • With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (Riding Lessons and Flying Changes)-but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures, including an elephant who only responds to Polish commands. He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers-a romance complicated by Marlena's husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for. Despite her often clich?d prose and the predictability of the story's ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book. (May 26) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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