Theory & Practice by Michelle De Kretser
WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 'The most thrilling fiction of the year ... an absolute triumph' Catherine Taylor, Financial Times 'A genre-busting inquiry into life and art, youth and Virginia Woolf' Guardian, Books to Look Forward to 2025 'I loved Theory & Practice ... raw, funny, truthful, youthful' Tessa Hadley 'Michelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and Theory & Practice a lightning strike of a book' Ali Smith 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.
Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working todayShe 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 *
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 *
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia as a teenager. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris. She is the author of six other novels, most recently Scary Monsters, which won the 2023 Rathbone Folio Prize. She has also won the Miles Franklin Award (twice) and has been longlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange Prize. She lives in Sydney.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781914502163 |
| ISBN 10 | 1914502167 |
| Title | Theory & Practice |
| Author | Michelle De Kretser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Sort of Books |
| Year published | 2025-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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