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Theory & Practice [signed]
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A sharp and intellectually playful work of autofiction, Theory & Practice chronicles the coming-of-age of a young Sri Lankan woman navigating the heady world of literary theory in 1980s Melbourne, where ideas about feminism, postcolonialism, and desire collide with the messy realities of everyday life. De Kretser presents her narrator's immersion in academic thought with both affection and irony, illustrating how the grand theories absorbed in seminar rooms often crumble against the lived textures of love, ambition, and displacement. The novel unfolds with De Kretser's characteristic wit and precision, drawing a vivid portrait of a woman caught between the seductive certainty of intellectual frameworks and the irreducible complexity of her own experience. Compact yet richly layered, it argues that the distance between how we think we should live and how we actually live is where the most honest self-knowledge begins.
Author: Michelle De Kretser
Format: Paperback
Published: 2024, Text Publishing Melbourne Australia
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A sharp and intellectually playful work of autofiction, Theory & Practice chronicles the coming-of-age of a young Sri Lankan woman navigating the heady world of literary theory in 1980s Melbourne, where ideas about feminism, postcolonialism, and desire collide with the messy realities of everyday life. De Kretser presents her narrator's immersion in academic thought with both affection and irony, illustrating how the grand theories absorbed in seminar rooms often crumble against the lived textures of love, ambition, and displacement. The novel unfolds with De Kretser's characteristic wit and precision, drawing a vivid portrait of a woman caught between the seductive certainty of intellectual frameworks and the irreducible complexity of her own experience. Compact yet richly layered, it argues that the distance between how we think we should live and how we actually live is where the most honest self-knowledge begins.