Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara
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Summary: When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned, jumps onto a passing train, he enters the world of a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after town. A veterinary student, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus animals. 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, and he meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.Custom 1
Author notes;Sara Gruen was born in Canada. She became a US citizen and was working as a technical writer here in 1999. Two years later she was laid off and decided to become a full-time writer of fiction. She is married and lives in North Carolina with her husband, three children, dogs, cats, horses and a goat.
She is one of a very few number of people who has actually visited the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. There she was researching the bonobos monkeys and began writing her novel, Ape House. Her earlier bestselling novel, Water For Elephants, will soon be made into a movie. In 2015 her title At the Water's Edge, made the New Zealand Best Seller's List.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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NCEA3| Location | edition | Bar Code | due date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | Two Roads | A00135947 |
| Dewey: | F |
| call #: | GRU |
| ISBN: | 9781444716009 |
| pub: | 2006 |
| Type: |  |