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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, which flash back and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the millennium, adapting to society's changing expectations of men, Shields's elegant prose makes the trivial into the momentous.
We follow this young floral designer through two marriages and divorces, his interactions with parents, friends, and a son. And all the while, 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 survives 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.
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General, Education, Fiction - General, Spanish: Adult Nonfiction, Fiction, Men, Landscape architects in fiction, Self-disclosure, Landscape architects, Self-disclosure in fiction, Men in fiction, Literature, Bildungsromans, Social conditions, Maze puzzles, Flower arrangers, Popes, Catholics, Election, Clergy, Muslims, Dictionaries, Nationalists, Biography, History, Large type books, Literary prizes, Maze gardens, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, humorous, general, Canada, fiction, Fiction, general, Nineteen seventies, Nineteen eighties, Nineteen ninetiesShowing 10 featured editions. View all 35 editions?
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Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the millennium, adapting to society's changing expectations of men, Shields' elegant prose makes the trivial into the momentous. 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 of 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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