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Larry's Party

Carol Shields

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Winner:Women's Prize for Fiction -Fiction (1998)
Nominee:Guardian First Book Award -First Book (1997)
The "San Diego Tribune" called "The Stone Diaries" a "universal study of what makes women tick." With "Larry's Party" Carol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. "Larry's Party" gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997, that seamlessly flash backward and forward. We follow this young floral designer through two marriages and divorces, and his interactions with his parents, friends, and a son. Throughout, we witness his deepening passion for garden mazes--so like life, with their teasing treachery and promise of reward. Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties, and the lean, mean nineties, completing at last his quiet, stubborn search for self. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1998
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.38in - 0.83in - 0.64lb
  • EAN: 9780140266771
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: • Historical - General• World Literature - Canada - 20th Century• Literary

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About the Author

Carol Shields (1935-2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award. Her other novels and short-story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, Swann, The Orange Fish, Various Miracles, The Box Garden, and Small Ceremonies (all available from Penguin).

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Amanda Craig
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Ninth novel The Three Graces out now. "I write to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted." FRLS etc

Larry’s Party by Carol Shields review — an exceptional novel about a very ordinary man https://t.co/bXxYiCSoBJ Claire Powell, whose debut At The Table is a delight ⁦@LittleBrownUK⁩

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Library serving Multnomah County, Oregon since 1864.

How about a view into an entire life? Larry's Party by Carol Shields might be what you're looking for: https://t.co/tlMxO52HMy #AskALibrarian https://t.co/9Vx0gRSt1Q

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.bsky.social
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Award-winning short fiction writer, novels brewing. HC #CostaShortStoryAward 2021, @BathNovelAward LL 2017, 20, 21, #BNA2021 Cornerstones LL prize. she/her/cis

Canadian friends -help! Dipping into Larry’s Party by Carol Shields, I’ve come across this and must have missed it before. Do Canadians rhyme Larry with ordinary? Have I been mispronouncing his name in my head for DECADES? In the UK it’s La-Ree (equal stress on each) not LAIR-ee https://t.co/PWUZLXCGpK

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