|                          Water for Elephants                               |
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 |                                 A Novel                                    |
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 | DATE: 2013-05-06  SIZE: 2,94MB   DISKS: 01_______4,77MB      PAGES:        |
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 | PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books                   GENRE: Fiction                |
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 | AUTHOR: Sara Gruen                                                         |
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 | FORMAT: EPUB   PROTECTION: DRM     EDITION:                                |
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 | URL: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Water-Elephants/Gruen-Sara/Q507570334  |
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9781565125858                                    |
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 : Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob     :
 : Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young :
 : man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini      :
 : Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with   :
 : freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with:
 : its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of  :
 : death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living:
 : hell.                                                                      :
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 : Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had:
 : no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the:
 : early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus :
 : was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, :
 : was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus   :
 : boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she :
 : was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of :
 : the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act—in fact, she    :
 : couldn't even follow instructions. 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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 : Surprising, poignant, and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel    :
 : with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with          :
 : characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has :
 : been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to  :
 : breathe its air.                                                           :