Good hearted well-meaningness emanates from Larry Weller more by
luck than judgement but his life of late has increasingly come to
resemble the mazes that he designs for a living. An enthusiasm
begun when honeymooning with his first wife after a visit to
Hampton Court, has acted thereafter as a metaphor for his own life
- both imposing order and boxing him in. Larry's Party won The
Orange Prize in 1998 (Kirkus UK)
"Altogether a cause for celebration."
ANITA BROOKNER, 'Spectator'
Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with mazes may help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as – through twenty years and two failed marriages – he endeavours to understand his own needs. And those of friends, parents, lovers, a growing son.
In LARRY’S PARTY Carol Shields presents an ironic odyssey through the life of modern man, from the late seventies through to 1997. The mundane is made magnificent by a perception which finds the drama in life’s detail – poignant, peculiar, or simply absurd.
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