Larry's Party

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By Carol Shields ISBN: 9780679309512 format: Paperback pages: 352 publisher: Random House of Canada pub. date: 1998-09-29

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Winner of the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Larry Weller is an ordinary guy. His dreamy adolescence, spent avoiding the atmosphere of tragedy that haunts his parents, gives way to adulthood by accident: marriage too early, a job in a flower shop, a child, a divorce, another wife, then a career that slowly grows out of an obsession. Larry loves garden mazes—so like life with their teasing treachery and romise of reward—and he learns how to build them. Driven by happenstance, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties, and the lean mean nineties, finding at last, at the heart of his own personal maze, a stubborn selfhood and surprised happiness. Winner of the Orange Prize, and a New York Times book of the Year.

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