Water for Elephants (Paperback)

Gruen's atmospheric, gritty, and compelling bestseller, set in the circus world during the Great Depression, is now a major motion picture starring Robert Pattinson ("Twilight") and Academy Award-winners Christophe Waltz ("Inglorious Basterds") and Reese Witherspoon ("Walk the Line"). 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 in the Depression tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth -- a world filled with freaks and clowns with wonder and pain and anger and passion. To Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell