MEMORY AND DESIRE

This new collection brings together a selection of ,Val Mulkerns&rsquo, short fiction from three collections, ,Antiquities (André, Deutsch, 1978), An Idle Woman, ,(Poolbeg Press, 1980) and A Friend of Don Juan (John ,Murray, 1988). The stories take us from the cell of a ,rebel prisoner in 1916 through hard times in Dublin of ,the 1930s, the changing world of Ireland in the 60s and ,70s and finally the eponymous &lsquo,Memory and Desire,&lsquo, a ,quintessential tale of the 80s. Irish author Colm Tó,ibí,n described the title story as &ldquo,one of the finest short stories that has been published in Ireland for many years&rdquo,. Sebastian Barry has described Val Mulkerns as &ldquo,a masterly writer in the tradition of Seá,n Ó, Faolá,in&rdquo, and ,Booker Prize winner Anne Enright has said about the collection