17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
‘Theory & Practice' is a whip-smart novel about life and art
Michelle de Kretser first stunned me in 2020 with her small, perfect tribute 'On Shirley Hazzard,' a brief work of outsized wisdom. But de Kretser had by then already earned fine notoriety with her fiction — praised by such luminaries as Hilary Mantel, Anita Desai, Ursula Le Guin, and A. S. Byatt.