01512cam a2200301 4500 1236366179 TxAuBib 20110527120000.0 110305t20112006||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781616200718 pbk. 1616200715 pbk. WRS WRS ZS3 TxAuBib Gruen, Sara. Water for elephants : a novel / Sara Gruen. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2011. ©2006. 445 p. ; 18 cm. Publication date from p. 4 of cover. "Now a Major motion Picture.". As a young man during the Great Depression, Jacob Jankowski is tossed by fate onto a rickety train that is home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. For Jacob, the circus is both his salvation and a living hell. Put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie, he meets Marlena, a beautiful equestrian star married to a charismatic, but twisted, animal trainer. And he meets Rosie, a seemingly untrainable elephant who is the great gray hope for the third-rate traveling show. The bond that grows among this unlikely trio is ultimately their only hope for survival. 20110527. Circus Fiction. Depressions 1929 Fiction. Circus performers Fiction. Elephants Fiction. Historical fiction. Love stories.