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Larry's party / Carol Shields.

by Shields, Carol.

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Random House of Canada, 1997.

Women's Prize for Fiction.

Children of immigrants -- Fiction.

Landscape gardening -- Fiction.

Winnipeg (Man.) -- Fiction.

Manitoba -- Fiction.

9780670873920 (Viking hc.)

0670873926 (Viking hc.)

9780679309512 (Viking trade pbk.)

0679309519 (Viking trade pbk)

ix, 339 p. : ill.

Larry Weller, the son of English immigrants, is brought to Winnipeg while still in his mother's womb. He grows up to become a floral arranger and landscape gardener. As the story opens in 1977, Larry is 26, living at home and dating Dorrie, whom he eventually marries. The story progresses episodically across the next 20 years in a narrative of Larry's life. The unhappy circumstances that led to the Wellers' emigration, the failure of Larry's marriage to Dorrie, the trials of his second marriage, and the development of his career as a landscaper are all described through flashback.

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, 1998.

Canadian fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Literary fiction.

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