Water for Elephants 馬戲團(tuán)之戀
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Author: Sara Gruen
List Price: $23.95
Pages: 335
Publisher: Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill; Roughcut edition
ISBN: 1565124995
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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. He also falls in love with
Marlena, one of the show's star performers—a romance complicated by
Marlena's husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats
both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for...
《馬戲團(tuán)之戀》以1920年經(jīng)濟(jì)大恐慌為背景，主角是二十三歲的Jacob，Jacob在父母因車(chē)禍身亡之后，毅然休學(xué)加入馬戲團(tuán)擔(dān)任獸醫(yī)，在巡回表演的路程中，Jacob結(jié)識(shí)了各種怪異人物，其中包括一只只聽(tīng)得懂波蘭語(yǔ)的大象Roise；雅克還愛(ài)上團(tuán)長(zhǎng)的妻子，馬戲團(tuán)的臺(tái)柱Marlena,因而引發(fā)了一連串沖突。作者生動(dòng)地刻畫(huà)這段三角戀情，同時(shí)詳實(shí)而栩栩如生地描繪馬戲團(tuán)的運(yùn)作和生態(tài)。本書(shū)除了浪漫愛(ài)情成分，作者巧妙添加了歷史、懸疑的部分，最后結(jié)果更是出人意料，讓人大呼過(guò)癮。
About Author
Sara
Gruen lives with her husband and three children in an
environmentalist community outside of Chicago. An award-winning
technical writer, she made her fiction debut in 2004 with RIDING
LESSONS, followed by FLYING CHANGES. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is her
third novel.
以寫(xiě)作技巧著稱(chēng)的獲獎(jiǎng)作家葛盧恩，曾發(fā)表過(guò)作品“Riding Lessons”，“Flying
Changes”，《馬戲團(tuán)之戀》是她推出的第三部小說(shuō)。目前她與家人居住在芝加哥郊外的環(huán)保社區(qū)。
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