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Water for Elephants is a 2006 historical romance novel by Canadian–American author Sara Gruen. The novel is set in a 20th-century circus. Gruen wrote the book as part of the National Novel Writing Month. A film adaptation was released in 2011, while a stage musical began presentations in 2023 and opened on Broadway in spring 2024.
- Sara Gruen
- 2006
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May 22, 2006 · When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.
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- Paperback
- Sara Gruen
May 26, 2006 · Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused.
- 2006
- Sara Gruen
Apr 9, 2007 · by Sara Gruen (Author) 4.6 12,497 ratings. See all formats and editions. Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla. #1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller.
- Algonquin Books
- $11.55
A historical fiction about a young man who joins a Depression-era circus and falls in love with a married performer and an elephant. Read reviews, excerpts, and a reading group guide for this New York Times best seller.
Illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds, in a world in which love is a luxury few can afford.
- Sara Gruen
- 2 min
Jul 20, 2010 · Water for Elephants: a novel of star-crossed lovers perfect for summer reading Kindle Edition. by Sara Gruen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.3 4,230 ratings. See all formats and editions. THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON AND NEW YORK TIMES MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER. ALSO AN AWARD-WINNING FILM STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND ROBERT PATTINSON.
- Sara Gruen
