UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16313424
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781598872729
,
9781598872729
Content:
" 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. He introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act,to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus’s animal trainer),and to Rosie, the seemingly untrainable elephant Jacob cares for. 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."
Content:
Rezension(1): " SARA GRUEN is the best selling author of Riding Lessons. She is an animal lover who lives with her husband, three children, five cats, two goats, a dog, and a horse in an environmentalist community north of Chicago. She did extensive research on traveling circuses of the 1930s for this story." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:This marvelously exciting and satisfying book has been given the engaging audio production it deserves, with a fine reading of young Jacob Jankowski by David LeDoux, in a cracking voice full of youthful passion and high drama, and John Randolph Jones doing the crusty, rusted voice of Jacob at 90, furious about being warehoused in a nursing home while inside he is still the young man who joined the circus, fell in love with the girl who did the elephant act, and survived the catastrophe that finally befell the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth as the Great Depression tightened its grip on everything. LeDoux gets to do the high-voltage scenes, and there are many, but Jones and Rosie the elephant steal your heart. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 6, 2006 With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen', romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel ( Riding Lessons and Flying Changes )—,ut without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures, including an elephant who only responds to Polish commands. He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show', star performers—, romance complicated by Marlena', husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for. Despite her often cliché, prose and the predictability of the story', ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book."
Note:
Auszeichnungen: American Library Association:Alex Award
Language:
English
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/126147-WaterForElephants.wma
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/126147-WaterForElephants.mp3
URL:
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=37A30C05-28E3-4F92-B20C-AE2EEBBF9248&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
URL:
http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=37A30C05-28E3-4F92-B20C-AE2EEBBF9248
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