The Resource The elephant of Belfast, S. Kirk Walsh
The elephant of Belfast, S. Kirk Walsh
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The item The elephant of Belfast, S. Kirk Walsh represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fountaindale Public Library.
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- Summary
- "In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving at the Belfast docks from Ceylon. Soon, she becomes Violet's dedicated zookeeper at the Bellevue Zoo. At the same time, Hettie continues to experience the grief related to the recent loss of her beloved older sister, Anna, and the abandonment of her father, Thomas, who left her mother, Rose. On April 15th, 1941, Belfast is attacked for five hours, with 674 bombs falling, and almost a thousand civilians being killed. During the bombings and its aftermath, Hettie does all that she can to save her elephant, and survive the destruction and escalating sectarian unrest of the city. Even though Hettie is still only twenty years old by the novel's end, she's aged at least a decade, her life and perspective transforming in tragic and unexpected ways"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 527 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781432889777
- Label
- The elephant of Belfast
- Title
- The elephant of Belfast
- Statement of responsibility
- S. Kirk Walsh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving at the Belfast docks from Ceylon. Soon, she becomes Violet's dedicated zookeeper at the Bellevue Zoo. At the same time, Hettie continues to experience the grief related to the recent loss of her beloved older sister, Anna, and the abandonment of her father, Thomas, who left her mother, Rose. On April 15th, 1941, Belfast is attacked for five hours, with 674 bombs falling, and almost a thousand civilians being killed. During the bombings and its aftermath, Hettie does all that she can to save her elephant, and survive the destruction and escalating sectarian unrest of the city. Even though Hettie is still only twenty years old by the novel's end, she's aged at least a decade, her life and perspective transforming in tragic and unexpected ways"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- CNNWP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walsh, S. Kirk
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Zoo keepers
- Elephants
- Human-animal relationships
- Orphaned animals
- Young women
- Belfast (Northern Ireland)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The elephant of Belfast, S. Kirk Walsh
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 527 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432889777
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1262667829
- (OCoLC)1262667829
- 2152884
- Label
- The elephant of Belfast, S. Kirk Walsh
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 527 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432889777
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1262667829
- (OCoLC)1262667829
- 2152884
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