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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
 
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Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants: The Big Flop

Date of Review:  Sep 3, 2006
The Bottom Line: Gruen's novel about a circus in 1931 is well-researched, but cliches and stereotypes litter the sawdust like elephant poop.
Review: Does anyone still dream of running away with the circus? Is there a young boy somewhere fed up with the unreasonable demands of school, parents and adolescent society and longs to leave all that behind for the sawdust and sequins of the three-ring...
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Water For Elephants: A Beautiful Love Story

Date of Review:  Sep 15, 2008
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Water For Elephants is a wonderful adventure and a beautiful love story.  I'd recommend it to anyone.

Review: Sara Gruen has written quite a lovely story called Water For Elephants. Set in the Great Depression, this novel tells the plight of a young man’s life after his parents die in a horrific car accident. Jacob Jankowski has almost completed his college...
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Step Right Up for the Best Show of the Summer, The Show is Beginning.

Date of Review:  Aug 16, 2006
The Bottom Line: This was an uncomfortable story yet mesmerizing from the start. Sara Gruen successfully humanized the harsh and often tragic world of the Depression-era circus in a memorable way.
Review: Come on in ladies and gentlemen, step this way for a tale of two circuses and one man in two time periods How can that be, you ask? The circus is a world of magic and mysteries that appeals to young and old alike. This gripping tale of a second tier...
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Authors Sara Gruen
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  Publisher's Weekly: "Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book."

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Publisher: Large Print Pr (May 09, 2007)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9781594132001
 
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An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. Gritty, sensual and charged with dark secrets involving love, murder and a majestic, mute heroine (Rosie the Elephant). Q Parade.
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Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. He introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus's animal trainer); and to Rosie, the seemingly untrainable elephant Jacob cares for. Beautifully written, with a luminous sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells of love in a world in which love's a luxury few can afford.
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As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.
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