WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
Sarah Gruen
paperback, 2007
$13.95
How did I miss this book?!
A terrific, colourful, engrossing page-turner about life and love in a depression-era travelling circus that came highly recommended a few weeks ago from a visitor to the bookstore. A very BIG thank you, whoever you are...
Told in flashback by 90-year-old Jacob Jankowski, who upon the death of his parents drops out of veterinary school and winds up in the employ of The Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, tending to their menagerie of exotic animals and falling 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.
Photographs courtesy of our partner Todd/Browning Gallery.
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