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Larry's Party 

by

Carol Shields

Larry's Party

(1997)
A novel by

Carol Shields

Awards
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
"A brilliant fictional reflection on what it may be like to be a man in the late twentieth century."
Penelope Lively


 

The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze. 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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Hardback Editions

June 1998 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0753158671Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-7531-5867-1 / 978-0-7531-5867-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Large Print Bks.
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March 1998 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1568955375Title: Larry's Party: A Novel
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-56895-537-5 / 9781568955377 (USA edition)
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
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September 1997 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0670873926Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-670-87392-6 / 978-0-670-87392-0 (USA, AU, or UK edition)
Publisher: Viking Pr
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September 1997 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0679308776Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-679-30877-6 / 978-0-679-30877-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Canada
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August 1997 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1857026160Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-85702-616-0 / 9781857026160 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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Paperback Editions

2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000S9MTIETitle: LARRY'S PARTY
Author(s): CAROL SHIELDS
Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL
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2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0014EW28OTitle: Larrys Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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August 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753162415Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-7531-6241-5 / 978-0-7531-6241-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Publishing
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September 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0679309519Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-679-30951-9 / 978-0-679-30951-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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September 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0140266771Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-14-026677-1 / 978-0-14-026677-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books
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June 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1857027418Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-85702-741-8 / 9781857027419 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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May 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1857027051Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-85702-705-1 / 9781857027051 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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August 1997 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1857027957Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-85702-795-7 / 9781857027952 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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1997 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007666225Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol. Shields
ISBN: 0-00-766622-5 / 978-0-00-766622-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Ted Smart
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Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0965067629Title: Larrys Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-9650676-2-9 / 978-0-9650676-2-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
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Audio Editions

October 2006 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0864924674Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-86492-467-4 / 978-0-86492-467-4 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Goose Lane ed
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October 2006 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1864924675Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-86492-467-5 (Australia edition)
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
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September 1998 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0754002047Title: Larry's Party: Complete & Unabridged
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-7540-0204-7 / 978-0-7540-0204-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
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August 1998 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0864921918Title: Larrys Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-86492-191-8 / 978-0-86492-191-8 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: BTC Audiobooks
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June 1998 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0788718738Title: Larry's Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-7887-1873-8 / 978-0-7887-1873-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books
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September 1997 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0140866213Title: Larrys Party
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-14-086621-3 / 978-0-14-086621-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Audio USA
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