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Loading... Larry's Party (original 1997; edition 1998)by Carol Shields
Work InformationLarry's Party by Carol Shields (1997)
  
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  MarilynKinnon | Aug 19, 2023 |  Shields writing carries this novel. Otherwise it would have been completely dull. Instead it was just a bit dull. (  ) Smits | Jun 5, 2022 | ) BookLeafs | May 26, 2022 |  ) auldhouse | Sep 30, 2021 | ) stephkaye | Dec 14, 2020 |
 Wie Carol Shields sich diesem modernen Mann ohne Eigenschaften nähert, wie sie ihn umkreist, bedient und immer wieder aus den Augen zu verlieren scheint, das macht die Kraft dieses Romans aus. Bei aller Ehrlichkeit ist es ein warmes, einfühlsames Buch, ein Roman, der dem nicht mehr einheitlichen Subjekt zumindest eine äußerliche Struktur zu geben versucht. Es ist tröstlich zu lesen, wie wenig es ändert, daß das Ich nicht mehr definierbar ist, daß die Bezugssysteme fehlen und man sich nicht mehr zurechtfindet, weil es allen so geht. Die Brüchigkeit des Subjekts ist unabhängig von Gesundheit und Reichtum und deshalb auch unheilbar. In den vielen Fragmenten des Ich aber liegt genausoviel Wahrheit wie zuvor in dem ganzen großen Individuum. Die Moderne ist eben nicht nur die Zeit des Zweifels, der kalten Funktionalität und Vielfältigkeit, sondern hält in der Gefahr eben auch die romantische Rettung bereit.
The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry's PartyCarol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. Larry's Party gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997, that seamlessly flash backward and forward. We follow this young floral designer through two marriages and divorces, and his interactions with his parents, friends, and a son. Throughout, we witness his deepening passion for garden mazes--so like life, with their teasing treachery and promise of reward. 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 for self. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom. No library descriptions found. |
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Larry's Party by Carol Shields
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