Larry's Party

Larry's Party by Carol Shields is a thoughtful and beautifully written literary novel that explores modern life, relationships, identity, and the changing role of men at the close of the twentieth century. Following the life of Larry Weller from the 1970s through the 1990s, the story transforms an ordinary man’s experiences into something deeply moving, insightful, and unforgettable.

Larry works as a floral designer and develops a fascination with elaborate garden mazes, which become a powerful symbol woven throughout his personal journey. Through marriages, friendships, family struggles, fatherhood, and self-discovery, Carol Shields captures the humor, vulnerability, and quiet complexity of everyday life with warmth and intelligence. Winner of the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction, Larry’s Party is a celebrated Canadian novel filled with wit, emotional depth, and elegant storytelling that will appeal to fans of literary fiction and character-driven novels.

Hardcover, Like New