Larry's Party

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 339 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Profound Issues Of Human Experience, Drawing Them From Everyday Existence With Vulnerable Honesty And A Good Dose Of Painkilling Humor.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780670873920