TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruen,Sara
TI  - Water for elephants: a novel 
SN  - 9781565125605 (pbk.)
AV  - PS3607.R696 W38 2007
U1  - 813/.6 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chapel Hill, N.C.
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Circus
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - Circus performers
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N1  - Contains interview with author and book-group discussion questions
N2  - A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. 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. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.--From publisher description
ER  -