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Theory & Practice
- Narrated by: Melissa Madden Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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, her work on the Woolfmother falls 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 Krestser, one of the best writers in the English language, has written her most brilliant book yet. It is, in short, a masterpiece.' NEEL MUKHERJEE
‘Thrillingly original.' SIGRID NUNEZ, author of The Vulnerables
‘A hugely talented author.' SARAH WATERS
‘One of the living masters of the art of fiction.' MAX PORTER