Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski is haunted by memories of his life as a young veterinarian for a circus during the Great Depression, recalling the bond he developed with Rosie, the show's troubled elephant, and Marlena, the star of the equestrian act who was married to August, who the head animal trainer.
year: 2006, 2007, 2011
call number/section: 1000, 1930
subjects: circus, fiction, depressions, circus performers, great depression, 1929-1939, historical fiction, love stories, historical fiction, love stories
Editions
Gruen, Sara
Algonquin Books (2006)
Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.
Schools: 18
Gruen, Sara
Algonquin Books (2007)
Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.
Schools: 28
Gruen, Sara
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2011)
Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski is haunted by memories of his life as a young veterinarian for a circus during the Great Depression, recalling the bond he developed with Rosie, the show's troubled elephant, and Marlena, the star of the equestrian act who was married to August, who the head animal trainer.
Schools: 1
Gruen, Sara
Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.
Schools: 4
Gruen, Sara
During the Depression, drifter Jacob Jankowski joins a traveling circus, cares for its menagerie, and falls in love with the wife of a cruel animal trainer.
Schools: 0