Larry's Party
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The Blurb:
Larry Weller is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by Carol Shields' perception, irony and tenderness - the everyday events of his life turning luminous in the writer's hands. 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, 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 promise of reward - and he learns how to build them to please the baffled child in his rich clients. 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 personal maze, a stubborn selfhood and surprised happiness.
Larry Weller is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by Carol Shields' perception, irony and tenderness - the everyday events of his life turning luminous in the writer's hands. 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, 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 promise of reward - and he learns how to build them to please the baffled child in his rich clients. 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 personal maze, a stubborn selfhood and surprised happiness.
A great read.
This book seems to be AWOL at the moment....
