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Original Title:	Larry's Party
ISBN:	0679309519 (ISBN13: 9780679309512)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.carol-shields.com/larrysparty.html
Characters:	Larry Weller
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (1998)

Larry's Party Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	Larry's Party
Author	:	Carol Shields
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	September 29th 1998 by Vintage Canada (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary

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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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I was given this book when it first came out in 1997. After reading the first few pages, I put it back on the shelf. There it sat for 17 years with a bookmark at page 20. I'm so glad I came back to it. At this stage in my life I am so much more receptive to Larry's life lessons! I think the reason I didn't like it at that time was that I had read The Stone Diaries and was expecting something similar. I've learned not to do that. An author's books should be like his or her children. They should

A very ordinary man, a very ordinary life. (Except for the fact that Larry is a maze designer.) In the hands of Carol Shield, Larrys life story, his internal struggles and the times he lived in, made for a captivating read.

I did not finish this. I still feel like reviewing and rating though. This was odd. The narrators voice to me was a mocking tone, but I didn't know if it was meant to be, and I was mocking the mocker. I felt it was slow and things only started to pick up a little when Larry's first wife took a back hoe to his prize shrub maze in the front yard. Cue divorce. Larry was a florist. Larry kept talking about words to describe his penis, or his erection. Diatribes of word after word after word. This

After two lovely collections of short stories it seemed only right to check out the authors long form and it didnt disappoint. Actually it was notably similar, unfolding in such a way as to be composed of short interconnected stories right down to the (slightly annoying) revisits of previous chapters, so that each one was logically self sufficient. But really, this was a proper novel, it followed a very average sort of man named Larry Weller for 2 decades of his life, from mid 20 to mid 40s.

All my reviews live at https://deedispeaking.com/reads/.TL;DR REVIEW:I really just enjoyed reading Larrys Party. It was cleverly written with a lovable main character and seems like it was very relevant for its time.For you if: You are looking for something that reads easily but leaves an impact.FULL REVIEW: Departures and arrivals: he didnt know it then, but these two forces would form the twin bolts of his existence as would the brief moments of clarity that rose up in between, offering

Can't remember when I read it but loved the sweep of the narrative, a man's life roughly contemporary with my own, so that's always interesting. And if I ever see a maze in a garden I remember it. Also the woman saying later in life 'I was such a little coupon-cutter'. Why that sticks with me is probably something I should examine ... but won't.

I think Carol Shields tried to explore the male psyche in Larry's Party like she did a woman's in the Stone Diaries. I was captivated with the latter. As for Larry...I think Carol tried, valiantly...