Choices - Fiction
Carol Shields - Larry's Party
 | Larry’s Party by Carol Shields Larry and his wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. But it's while visiting the Hampton Court Maze that Larry discovers the passion of his life, and he goes from work as an ordinary man, a floral designer, to become a noted architect of garden mazes. It is this obsession with mazes that helps him steer a course through the next twenty years and two failed marriages. The book follows Larry through 20 years of his life, culminating in an unforgettable party. Often compared with Anne Tyler, Carol Shields also specialised in documenting seemingly ordinary lives – “The 'nothing much' that usually happens, all conveyed in such microscopic detail that humankind seems to be revealed in all its mundane, wonderful glory.” The Observer Sadly, she died in 2003. Larry’s Party was Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1998 |
