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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen
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Canonical Title
Water for Elephants
Original publication date
2006-05-26
People/Characters
Jacob Jankowski
Marlena Rosenbluth
August Rosenbluth
Camel
Uncle Al
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Walter
Rosemary
Rosie
Bobo
Queenie
Barbara
Charlie O'Brien
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cornell University
Benzini Brothers Circus
Important events
Great Depression
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Awards and honors
Book Sense Book of the Year (2007.8|Adult Fiction Winner, 2007)
Alex Award (2007)
New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2006)
Great Lakes Book Award (Fiction, 2007)
Reading Across Rhode Island (2008)
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ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (2009.1|Arts & Humanities, 2009)
Epigraph
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant...
An elephant's faithful--one hundred per cent!
--Theodor Seuss Geisel, Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940
Dedication
For Bob, still my secret weapon
First words
I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
Prologue: Only three people were left under the red and white awning of the grease joint: Grady, me, and the fry cook.
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For this old man, this is home.
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Robert Olen Butler
Susan Cheever
Stephanie Cowell
Joshilyn Jackson
Jeanne Ray
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King, Stephen
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