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Water For Elephants by: Sara Gruen List Price: CDN$ 16.50 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 12.05 You Save: CDN$4.45 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780006391555 ISBN: 0006391559 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: March 29, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 06, 2007 Studio: Harper Perennial Sales Rank: 29 Related Items:
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 Rating: - An Enchanting Fairy TaleHave you ever dreamed running away and joining the circus? No doubt with this thrilling and romantic story you will be transported into the extraordinary and exotic world of a travelling circus during the hard times of the Great Depression. Living in a nursing home and reminiscing of the old days, Jacob Jankowshi now a ninety year old, narrates his life under the Big Top while he worked for the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. The story hovers between his present day life and the exciting times spent with the travelling circus. Finding his world turn up side down and penniless with the death of his parents, Jacob runs off and joins the circus. There he wakes up to a hard world of freaks and clowns, animals ... Read More: Rating:  - Life in persectiveThis book, Water for Elephants, was one of the most heart wrenching yet warm stories I have read in a long while. The truth of Jacobs Story, both old and young Jacob forces us to think of the way we treat people around us, of all ages. It was a story I think all of us are much better for reading. Thank You Terrie Rating: - Gripping Story and CharactersThis book does provide a fairly riveting story set within post depression America and also provides good insights into the circus business during this era. The book balances the dynamics of maintaining a circus in tough economic times against a host of vivid and disparate personalities that can both support and challenge the stability of the circus. For example there is Big Al who runs the circus with a nearly ruthless practicality, "redlighting" individuals who violate his rules. There is August, second in command, alternately tough and gracious, supportive and cruel. There is Jacob, the hero, who stumbles into the world after fleeing Cornell Vet School and who subsequently falls in love with August's wife. The book alternates between the young Jacob ... Read More: Rating: - BeautifulThis is a story unlike any other...and one I'll never forget. Water for Elephants is a book I will pick up every couple of years and re-read because it is that wonderful. Rating: - Fabulous fiction - for those craving a marvellous storyRecipe for a perfect afternoon: a tall glass of real iced tea, phones off, a tub filled with your favourite scented bubbles, no kidlets or other distractions, and this jewel of a book. I wept at the end - simply because it ended! Luxuriate in the pages of a novel in which this fine storyteller whisks you away into another world where you, too, will fall in love with an elephant. |
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