Water for Elephants A Novel

Sara Gruen

eBook - 2007

Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla#1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller"This colorful headlong tale of a Depression-era circus simply can't be beat." —Stephen KingA Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz Jacob Janowski’s luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was the Great Depression and for Jacob the circus was bot...h his salvation and a living hell. There he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but... more