Val Mulkerns

Broschiertes Buch

Memory and Desire

Beschreibung

This new collection brings together a selection of Val Mulkerns’ 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 ‘Memory and Desire,‘ a quintessential tale of the 80s. Irish author Colm Tóibín described the title story as "one of the finest short stories that has been published in Ireland for many years". Sebastian Barry has described Val Mulkerns as "a masterly writer in the tradition of Seán Ó Faoláin" and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright has said about the collection: "When writing is this accurate, this good, it does not fade." In her Irish Times review of the work, Enright continued: "it is remarkable how these stories, published between 1978 and 1988, consistently point to things we pretended, in those days, not to know." The collection, often taking in characters largely ignored by Irish fiction writers, provides a keen and compelling glimpse of Irish society with prose that Sebastian Barry also called, "beautiful stories so composed they border on a very special Mulkernsian wildness."

Autor

Val Mulkerns was an Irish writer and member of Aosdána. Her first novel, A Time Outworn, was released to critical acclaim in Ireland in 1951. She was associate editor and theatre critic for The Bell and later worked as a journalist and columnist and was often heard on the radio. She is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories, two children's books and many published essays and critical writings. Antiquities, her linked short story sequence, was a joint winner in 1984 of the AIB prize for literature. In 1953 she married Maurice Kennedy and they have two sons and a daughter. A third edition of her 1984 novel, The Summerhouse, was published in 2013, followed by a volume of her collected short stories, Memory and Desire in 2016. Her tenth title, the memoir Friends With The Enemy, came out a year later. She passed away in March, 2018. This special edition of her first book is published on the anniversary of her birth on 14 February, 1925.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 451 Editions
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780993144318
• ISBN-10: 0993144314
• Artikelnr.: 47243744