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Larry's party (Record no. 239724)

MARC details
000 -Encabezamiento
fixed length control field	02785n a2200169 a 4500
001 - Número de Control
control field	025949
005 - Fecha de Ultima Modificación
control field	20231009192514.0
008 - Elementos de Fongitud Fija--Información General
fixed length control field	130409t19971997--------------000-u-eng-u
020 ## - ISBN
ISBN	9780670873920
082 0# - Número de Clasificación Decimal Dewey
No. de Clasificación	FIC SHI
100 1# - Entrada Principal - Nombre Personal
Nombre Personal	Shields, Carol
245 10 - TÍTULO
Título del material	Larry's party
Mención de responsabilidad	/ Carol Shields
260 ## - Publicación, Distribución, etc. (Pie de Imprenta)
Lugar de Publicación, Distribución, etc.	New York
Nombre de la editorial, distribuidor, etc.	: Viking Press
Fecha de Publicación, Distribución, etc.	, c1997.
300 ## - Descripción Física
Extensión	339 pp
Dimensiones	; 25 cm.
520 ## - Resumen, etc.
Nota de resumen, etc.	A chronicle of one ordinary man's life as he searches--at first, bumblingly and inarticulately--for happiness and the meaning of existence, this triumphant novel runs in delicious counterpoint to Shields's evocation of Daisy Stone's life in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Stone Diaries. In following her male protagonist over five decades, Shields observes the changing social conventions, gender roles, vernacular idiosyncracies and moral constructs of the times, interpolating these details into the narrative with subtle wit and an unerring eye for telling details. She also delineates the stages of life as the body ages and the future offers only the "steady decline of limitless possibility," while the mind hopes for the solace of some universal truths. Born in 1950 into a blue-collar household in Winnipeg, Larry Weller becomes a floral designer for want of a better career goal. Aware of his lack of education, awkward and sexually timid (his eventual sexual awakening is both raunchy and funny), Larry is dimly conscious of another aspect of life beyond his parochial horizons. Only during his first honeymoon in England, willfully lost inside the maze at Hampton Court, does he get a glimmer that he might be more than "a man of limited imagination and few choices." When his fascination with shrubby labyrinths becomes a professional career, Larry moves into a wider world (and from Canada to the U.S. and back again) as a financially successful and internationally recognized maze builder. He also endures emotional traumas: the breakup of two marriages, estrangement from his son, midlife crisis and a catastrophic illness. Meanwhile, he is plagued with inchoate longings to understand the dimly perceived relationship between the mazes he constructs and "the undertow of something missing" in his existence. Shields offers snippets of Larry's journey through life in short chapters that often intersect and double back--a turn here, a repetition there. The pathway of her maze becomes clear only at the end, when Larry and his lover give a party to celebrate the coincidence of his two ex-wives arriving in Toronto. Evoked in a brilliant cascade of conversation--in which the central question is "What's it like being a man in the last days of the 20th century?"--the party provides Larry with epiphanic insight, and the reader with some delightful surprises.
942 ## - TIPO DE MATERIAL
Tipo de Material	Libro - Monografía

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				General	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Sala Ingles	09/10/2023		FIC SHI	025949	09/10/2023	09/10/2023	Fiction / Ficción