The Elephant of Belfast
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Thank you to the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; both residencies gave me valuable time and space to write and work. Thank you to my friends at Austin Bat Cave, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, the Michener Center for Writers, and my students of my nine-month workshop.
Lastly, I want to thank my husband, Michael Dolan. It has been a long journey to publication, and his enthusiasm and support has been with me all along the way. Michael, thank you for your love, your talent, your creativity, and your inspiration. Thank you for making me laugh—and smile—when I needed it the most. Your love has been a harbor and a home. Thank you.
© Erich Schlegel
S. KIRK WALSH is a writer living in Austin, Texas. Her work has been widely published in The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, StoryQuarterly, and Electric Literature, among other publications. Over the years, she has been a resident at Ucross, Yaddo, Ragdale, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Walsh is the founder of Austin Bat Cave, a writing and tutoring center that provides free writing workshops for young writers throughout Austin. The Elephant of Belfast is her first novel. Find out more at skirkwalsh.com.
THE ELEPHANT OF BELFAST
Copyright © 2021 by S. Kirk Walsh
First hardcover edition: 2021
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events is unintended and entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Walsh, S. Kirk, author.
Title: The elephant of Belfast : a novel / S. Kirk Walsh.
Description: First hardcover edition. | Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020017594| ISBN 9781640094000 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781640094017 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Belfast (Northern Ireland)—History—Bombardment, 1941—Fiction. GSAFD: Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3623.A366146 E44 2020 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020017594
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