Author

Publication

1997 - Random House of Canada, [Toronto], Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

84,750 words, Guess

Page Count

339 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97930733
  • LibraryThing7628
  • Goodreads1140185

Classifications

  • LCCDS464 .S35 1997

Alternate Titles

  • Geddes Collection.

Description

Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the millennium, adapting to society's changing expectations of men, Shields' elegant prose makes the trivial into the momentous. Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties and the lean, mean nineties, completing at last his quiet, stubborn search of self. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy and faultless wisdom.

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  • Larry's partyRandom House of Canada1997-01-01
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