SUMMARY: Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twen
Water for elephants
β Scribed by Sara Gruen
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1565126165
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Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and
SUMMARY: Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty
**The runaway international bestseller and beloved fiction classic** Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train--and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's darkly bea
**Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 *New York Times* Bestseller A *Los Angeles Times* Bestseller A *Wall Street Journal* Bestseller A *Newsday* Favorite Book of 2006 A *USA Today* Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christo
Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz Β Jacob Janowskiβs lu