Larry’s Party by Carol Shields

Larry’s Party by Carol Shields

Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction. In the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s maze, Larry Weller discovers the passion of his life. Larry’s Party presents an ironic odyssey through the life of a modern man.

‘A brilliant fictional reflection on what it may be like to be a man in the late twentieth century’ Penelope Lively, Independent

‘Exhilarating’ Sunday Times

‘Like all of Shields’ work, filled with warmth and understanding’ The Times

‘Shields demonstrates once again her extreme mastery of emotional geometry’ Sunday Telegraph

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Carol Shields’s novels include Unless; Larry’s Party, winner of The Women’s Prize; The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Republic of Love; Happenstance; and Mary Swann. Dressing Up for the Carnivaland Various Miracles, collections of short stories, were later published as The Collected Stories. Brought up in Chicago, Shields lived in Canada from 1957 until her death in 2003.

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ISBN 13	9781857027051
ISBN 10	1857027051
Title	Larry’s Party
Author	Carol Shields
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1998-05-12
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction 1998
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