02323cam a2200349 i 4500 1766661654 TxAuBib 20250304120000.0 240601s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024947932 9781646222872 HRD 25.00 1646222873 HRD 25.00 (OCoLC)1435475436 TxAuBib rda De Kretser, Michelle, author. Theory & practice [BOOK] / Michelle De Kretser. Theory and practice. First Catapult edition. New York : Catapult, 2025. 178 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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.". 20250304. Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation Fiction. Fiction Appreciation Fiction. Books Psychological aspects Fiction. Conduct of life Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Melbourne (Vic) Social conditions 20th century Fiction.