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Water for Elephants: A Novel de Sara Gruen
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Water for Elephants: A Novel (2006 original; edició 2007)

de Sara Gruen (Autor)

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28,787117795 (4.06)1 / 911
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.… (més)
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Títol:Water for Elephants: A Novel
Autors:Sara Gruen (Autor)
Informació:Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2007), 352 pages
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    BookshelfMonstrosity: Though Gruen's story is fiction and Hillenbrand's journalistic nonfiction, both reveal relationships between humans and animals in the Great Depression's entertainment field. Each describes the backstage training, care, and abuse of performing animals and people in candid, engaging language.… (més)
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  8. 20
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    BookshelfMonstrosity: Readers of Water for Elephants may enjoy reading this memoir of farm life during the Great Depression; though the experiences are rather different, Little Heathens offers a complementary view of the period.
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Es mostren 1-5 de 1173 (següent | mostra-les totes)
I LOVED this book. I can't believe that I waited so long to read it. It's sat on my nook since back around April and I'm just kicking myself for waiting so long to read it. I love the character Jacob. The story itself was fabulous. When a book sucks you in from the first page, you know you have a winner. ( )
  thatnerd | Mar 2, 2024 |
Romance
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
This book started out as a nanowrimo draft, so I was interested in reading it.

I enjoyed this book. The descriptions of circus life in the 30s was well researched. The love story was believable. I recommend it. ( )
  jezebellydancer | Feb 11, 2024 |
Those horror stories you hear about when people run away to join the circus. The horrors here are all reflection of humanity, and it was delivered well.
Self discovery, love, betrayal and a deep affection for animals. I enjoyed the time jumps. The ending is bittersweet. ( )
  cmpeters | Feb 2, 2024 |
Summary:

An old man in his 90s reminisces about his time in the circus.

My Opinion:

I'm writing this a little differently because this is pure fluff for me. I loved this book. It's funny, it's disturbing, it's gritty, it's incredibly sad, and there is a love story intertwined within the pages. It's about love, friendship, the fragility of life, and the need for remembrance--not just in memories, but in our relationships, too.

This is short because I don't want to give too much away! ( )
  BrandyWinn | Feb 2, 2024 |
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It's a favorite of book clubs and reading groups, and is supposedly rife with parallels between the protagonist, Jacob Jankowski and Jacob, grandson of Abraham, in the Bible. I wish one of you would tell me what they are. They are not obvious to me, other than a cryptic "Jacob's ladder" parallel to the ladder on the train cars that give access to the roof and that will be important late in the story. What is obvious to me is this is a book about memory, something elephants are famous for and something humans are famous for treating as reliable when it isn't.
afegit per paradoxosalpha | editaDaily Kos, Limelite (Jul 28, 2011)
 
At its finest, "Water for Elephants" resembles stealth hits like "The Giant's House," by Elizabeth McCracken, or "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold, books that combine outrageously whimsical premises with crowd-pleasing romanticism. But Gruen's prose is merely serviceable, and she hurtles through cataclysmic events, overstuffing her whiplash narrative with drama (there's an animal stampede, two murders and countless fights).
 
What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage.
afegit per Shortride | editaTime, Lev Grossman (Jul 16, 2006)
 

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Gruen, Saraautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Abelsen, PeterTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Arduini, Adaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Jones, John RandolphNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
LeDoux, DavidNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Werner, Honijacket designautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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An elephant's faithful--one hundred per cent!
--Theodor Seuss Geisel, Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940
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I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
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The idea for this book came unexpectedly: In early 2003 I was gearing up to write an entirely different book when the Chicago Tribune ran an article on Edward J. Kelty, a photographer who followed traveling circuses around America in the 1920s and '30s. (Author's Note)
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Is where you’re from the place you’re leaving or where you have roots?
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With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
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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.

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