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Larry's Party is a 1997 novel by Carol Shields. There is an underlying theme of people retracing their steps, both literally and figuratively, and going down different routes to try to achieve fulfilment.
- Carol Shields
- 1969
Jan 1, 1997 · 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.
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- 1969
- Carol Shields
- Paperback
Following the success of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Stone Diaries, Shields’s Larry’s Party uncovers the life of Larry Weller, an ordinary, slightly sensitive, topiary...
A summary of the plot and themes of Larry's Party, a novel by Canadian author Carol Shields. The novel follows the life of Larry Weller, a maze designer who struggles to understand his existence and his relationships with women.
Shields' new novel, Larry's Party (Viking Press), takes place over a 20-year period, from 1979 to 1997, and stars a man who is Larry by name and Larry by nature. Shields suggests that for every Larry Holmes and Larry Olivier, there are thousands of anonymous men who live under the shade of this most unassuming of names.
Larry's Party is a thought-provoking novel that follows the life of Larry Weller, a man who finds his true passion in creating mazes. As Larry navigates through different stages of his life, the book explores themes of identity, relationships, and the search for meaning.
Larry’s Party, Carol Shields’s first novel since winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Stone Diaries (1994), combines the fragmented, piecemeal style of that novel with thematic strategies...
