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Theory & Practice

Auteur(s): Michelle de Kretser
Narrateur(s): Melissa Madden Gray
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A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art

It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a "deconstructed relationship." They become lovers, and the narrator's feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf's diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser's new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.

©2024 Michelle de Kretser (P)2025 W.F. Howes, Limited Amitié Fiction de genre Fiction femmes Récits initiatiques
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I wanted to read this book because of my own encounter with Theory in grad school. I could relate to the authors frustration with Theory and the academia. I liked the author’s attempt to expand what a novel can be, and her dialogue with Woolf mother. This novel offers lots of room for thought about immigrant parent- child relationships, colonialism and its continuing legacies, what a purpose and capacity of a novel is, and what does it mean to be a feminist.

The story is rich and multylayered

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