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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.

Product Identifiers

PublisherHighbridge Company

ISBN-101598870629

ISBN-139781598870626

eBay Product ID (ePID)53734556

Product Key Features

Book TitleWater for Elephants

TopicLiterary, Romance / General, Historical

Publication Year2006

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorSara Gruen

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.1in.

Item Length5.3in.

Item Width6.4in.

Item Weight9.6 Oz

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"This marvelously exciting and satisfying book has been given the engaging audio production it deserves, with a fine reading of young Jacob Jankowski by David LeDoux, in a cracking voice full of youthful passion and high drama, and John Randolph Jones doing the crusty, rusted voice of Jacob at 90." -- AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner], Gorgeous, brilliant, and superbly plotted. . . . I am hopelessly, unabashedly in love with this book., This marvelously exciting and satisfying book has been given the engaging audio production it deserves, with a fine reading of young Jacob Jankowski by David LeDoux, in a cracking voice full of youthful passion and high drama, and John Randolph Jones doing the crusty, rusted voice of Jacob at 90. - AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner], A Story So Real, So Authentic That It's Hard to Separate Fact from Fiction and History from DREAM., When his parents are killed in a traffic accident, Jacob Jankowski hops a train after walking out on his final exams at Cornell, where he had hoped to earn a veterinary degree. The train turns out to be a circus train, and since it's the Depression, when someone with a vet's skills can attach himself to a circus if he's lucky, Jacob soon finds himself involved with the animal acts-specifically with the beautiful young Marlena, the horse rider, and her husband, August. Jacob falls for Marlena immediately, and the ensuing triangle is at the center of this novel, which follows the circus across the states. Jacob learns the ins and outs of circus life, in this case under the rule of the treacherous Uncle Al, who cheats the workers and deals roughly with patrons who complain about blatant false advertising and rip-off exhibits. Jacob and Marlena are attracted to each other, but their relationship is fairly innocent until it becomes clear that August is not merely jealous but dangerously mentally deranged. Old-fashioned and endearing, this is an enjoyable, fast-paced story told by the older Jacob, now in his nineties in a nursing home. From the author of "Riding Lessons; recommended for all libraries., This marvelously exciting and satisfying book has been given the engaging audio production it deserves, with a fine reading of young Jacob Jankowski by David LeDoux, in a cracking voice full of youthful passion and high drama, and John Randolph Jones doing the crusty, rusted voice of Jacob at 90. AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner]

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes10 Vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.6

Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition

Narrated byJones, John RANDOLPH, Ledoux, David

Number of Pages1 Pages