Book of the Week: THEORY & PRACTICE by Michelle de Kretser
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? A young woman arrives in Melbourne in 1986 to research the work of Virginia Woolf, and finds her life reshaped in unexpected ways both by her studies and by her experiences.
“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, a brilliant book that reinvents itself again and again, stretching the boundaries of the novel to show the ways in which ideas and ideals are folded into our days, as well as the times when our choices fail to meet them. There’s no writer I’d rather read.” —V.V. Ganeshananthan, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
"Michelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and Theory & Practice a lightning strike of a book." —Ali Smith