Theory & Practice

· Sort Of Audio · Berättare: Melissa Madden Gray
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4 tim 37 min
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Boken släpps 27 februari 2025. Du debiteras inte förrän utgivningsdatumet.

Om den här ljudboken

'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, Women's Prize-winning author of Brotherless Night

'Theory & Practice blazes with intelligence, passion and wit. I devoured it, greedily, in a single glorious sitting' Sarah Waters

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.

Om författaren

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.

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