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Theory & Practice
Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser (born 1957)
English editions
Written in EnglishTheory & Practice
Sort of Books · United Kingdom · 26 February 2026 · Paperback · 192 pages
Theory & Practice
Text Publishing · Australia · 29 October 2024 · Paperback · 192 pages
Theory & Practice
Catapult · United States · 18 February 2025 · Hardcover · 192 pages
Theory & Practice
Sort of Books · United Kingdom · 27 February 2025 · Hardcover
Theory & Practice
Catapult · United States · 24 February 2026 · Paperback · 192 pages
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A writer remembers 1986, when daring new ideas seemed to be everywhere. Born in Sri Lanka, she came to Melbourne as a graduate student, writing a thesis on gender in Virginia Woolf's fiction. In bohemian St Kilda she fell in with painters, campaigners and fellow students, and with Kit, who said his relationship with his girlfriend was 'deconstructed'. They became lovers, and her feminist principles collided with her possessiveness. On campus, French theory reigned, and she found it blind to women's concerns. Then something Woolf wrote in her diary shattered the narrator's view of her heroine and upended her research. Blending fiction and memoir, the book asks what happens when what we want contradicts what we believe, and who bears the shame when secrets come out.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Love, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Australia, 1986
- First published
- 2024
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
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9781923058149 (Text Publishing, Australia)
9781646222872 (Catapult, United States)
9781914502163 (Sort of Books, United Kingdom)
9781646223220 (Catapult, United States)
9781914502187 (Sort of Books, United Kingdom)
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