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Water for Elephants
- Narrated by: David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Water for Elephants
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Publisher's Summary
Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. Jacob introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus' animal trainer); and to Rosie, a seemingly untrainable elephant.
Beautifully written, with a luminous sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells of love in a world in which love's a luxury few can afford.
What the critics say
- Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Adult Fiction, 2007
- Audie Award Finalist, Fiction, Unabridged, 2007
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- Stella Martine
- 2019-11-04
Straight to the heart!
A beautiful story with memorable characters. very curious to see how they've adapted this for film because so much happens ! 5 stars all the way!
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- Marie
- 2019-08-23
Incredible!!
I loved this book so much. it's a must read.
I love the true story and the way the author tells the story from present and past
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-08-04
Deserves 6 out of 5 stars!
Great writing ! Story grips and leads one through the action, surprises at every turn.
And the readers couldn’t have been better!
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- Alita
- 2020-11-28
Best School Assigned Book Ever
I'm taking Canadian literature and this book is so refreshing I love it. better than any book I have read in school.
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- James and Rose
- 2024-04-13
Great narration
I really liked the two voices, they were easy to follow. Cute story too.
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- Lisa Hatter
- 2020-08-21
Incredible Narration and story!
Loved the story, the characters were rich, and the narration perfect! A gem for sure!
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- jolene
- 2018-03-02
makes you want to learn
Performance was amazing! The story is great. Horrific times and sad but makes you love it.
great entertainment ready to try her next book
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- Sol a.
- 2020-12-21
A delightful charmer
We. Need more books like this sure it was a regular sex scene that you can just skip forward through and a little bit of murder but it wasn’t the focus of the point the focus of the point with the essence of the story short duration of life on a circus and how different it is great read
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- NIcole
- 2022-02-11
Great story
The music interludes in the narration were a bit melodramatic and distracting, but the split narration between the older and younger Jacobs was compelling.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-06-29
Loved it!
such an engaging story from beginning to end! the giggling glee of an old man.
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