Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara.
Water for elephants : a novel - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 3/6/2008 - 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 i
1565124995
Circus -- Fiction.
Depressions -- Fiction.
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Water for elephants : a novel - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 3/6/2008 - 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 i
1565124995
Circus -- Fiction.
Depressions -- Fiction.
Circus performers -- Fiction.