Theory & Practice
Deftly crafted ... The excesses of 1980s academia are ripe fodder for de Kretser’s mordant wit, but her aim here is more ambitious — and the results more rewarding. An Australian novelist of the first rank... de Kretser has long been fascinated by the gap between our ideals and our actions ... A taut, enthralling hybrid of fact and fiction impossible to disentangle, situates itself firmly in the mess.
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Bristling and formally inventive ... A Sally Rooney-ish, political/feminist picaresque, whose fiercely truth-seeking narrator both acts within and reports upon the shape-shifting social and academic organisms she’s part of ... De Kretser’s writing is unfailingly smart.
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Like a coming-of-age novel or perhaps a coming-to-writing novel, and De Kretser is a beautifully sly writer ... Anything but conventional ... At the end of the book, our narrator has grasped — like Woolf’s moth drawn to the light — that when held together, theory and practice is the truth we seek.
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