Gruen, Sara

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. A Novel

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 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 clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Item #14778
ISBN: 9781565124998

Price: $75.00