Toronto: Random House Canada, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 339 pp. Personalized inscription by Carol Shields on the title page. Black boards lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Larry Weller was a man who discovered the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze. Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court, Larry discovers a new passion. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with mazes may help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as - through twenty years and two failed marriages - he endeavours to understand his own needs. And those of friends, parents, lovers, a growing son....

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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.

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 224409
Title: LARRY'S PARTY - A Novel
Author: Shields, Carol
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0679308776
ISBN 13: 9780679308775
Publisher: Random House Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1997
Size: 8vo
Keywords: stone diaries; canadian author; governor general's award; pulitzer prize; national book critics circle award; orange prize;
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