Description
'Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory & Practice is a wonder.' V.V. Ganeshananthan It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda, she meets artists, activists, students - and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, a dismaying discovery throws her work on 'the Woolfmother' into disarray. Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain. Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia's most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.
'A masterpiece' from the winner of The 2023 Folio Prize
About the Author
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Australia as a teenager. She has won multiple awards, including the Miles Franklin Award twice, and the 2023 Folio Prize, for Scary Monsters. Her books have been longlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. She lives in Sydney.
Reviews
Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory & Practice is a wonder -- V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Women's Prize for Fiction and Carol Shields Prize award-winning Brotherless Night
Michelle de Kretser, one of the best writers in the English language, has written her most brilliant book yet. It is, in short, a masterpiece -- Neel Mukherjee
Praise for Michelle de Kretser and Scary Monsters -- :
One of the living masters of the art of fiction -- Max Porter
A truly great writer -- Ali Smith
Magnificent, peerless writing * Guardian *
There are very, very few writers who can match her style, her intelligence, her vision. To read her is to be changed -- Neel Mukherjee
A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth -- Monica Ali
A dazzling novel by a hugely talented author -- Sarah Waters
A book that is wry and heartbreaking, playful and profound * Kirkus Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781914502163
Author Michelle de Kretser
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
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'A masterpiece' from the winner of The 2023 Folio Prize
About the Author
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Australia as a teenager. She has won multiple awards, including the Miles Franklin Award twice, and the 2023 Folio Prize, for Scary Monsters. Her books have been longlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. She lives in Sydney.
Reviews
Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory & Practice is a wonder -- V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Women's Prize for Fiction and Carol Shields Prize award-winning Brotherless Night
Michelle de Kretser, one of the best writers in the English language, has written her most brilliant book yet. It is, in short, a masterpiece -- Neel Mukherjee
Praise for Michelle de Kretser and Scary Monsters -- :
One of the living masters of the art of fiction -- Max Porter
A truly great writer -- Ali Smith
Magnificent, peerless writing * Guardian *
There are very, very few writers who can match her style, her intelligence, her vision. To read her is to be changed -- Neel Mukherjee
A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth -- Monica Ali
A dazzling novel by a hugely talented author -- Sarah Waters
A book that is wry and heartbreaking, playful and profound * Kirkus Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781914502163
Author Michelle de Kretser
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
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