Item #008135 Larry's Party. Carol Shields.

Larry's Party

Toronto: Random House of Canada Limited, 1997. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #008135

Full black cloth. 339 pp. Light bruising to spine head, else fine. Larry Weller, born in Winnipeg n 1950, is like a lot of people. But Larry is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us a resonant and unforgettable portrait of a man - a sensuously detailed CAT scan of his life. In episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly, Larry emerges from a dreamy adolescence equipped with a Floral Arts degree from Red River College and journeys towards the millennium. 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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