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Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice Paperback Book 1

Michelle de Kretser

Theory & Practice Paperback Book

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At a Glance
Stella Prize Winner 2025
Genre-bending literary innovation
Explores desire and jealousy
Virginia Woolf inspired narrative
1986 bohemian Melbourne setting
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WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025The most thrilling fiction of the year ... an absolute triumph Catherine Taylor, Financial TimesA genrebusting inquiry into life and art, youth and Virginia Woolf Guardian, Books to Look Forward to 2025I loved Theory & Practice ... raw, funny, truthful, youthful Tessa HadleyMichelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and Theory & Practice a lightning strike of a book Ali SmithIts 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 Australias most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

SKU: M9781914502187
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Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: Sort of Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 312 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 19

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