Larry's party / Carol Shields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shields, Carol.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Fiction.

Men.

Landscape architects--Fiction.

Landscape architects.

Self-disclosure--Fiction.

Self-disclosure.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 339 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York ;] [Toronto] : Penguin Books, [1998]

Summary:

The glorious national bestseller by a writer who unfailingly "reminds us again why literature matters" ("The New York Times Book Review"). Giving readers, as it were, a CAT scan of the life of one Larry Weller--born in 1950, an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness--"Larry's Party" mirrors the male condition at the end of our century.

Contents:

Fifteen minutes in the life of Larry Weller, 1977

Larry's love, 1978

Larry's folks, 1980

Larry's work, 1981

Larry's words, 1983

Larry's friends, 1984

Larry's penis, 1986

Larry Inc., 1988

Larry so far, 1990

Larry's kid, 1991

Larry's search for the wonderful and the good, 1992

Larry's threads, 1993-4

Men called Larry, 1995

Larry's living tissues, 1996

Larry's party, 1997.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 1997. Published in Penguin Books 1998."

Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

ISBN:

0140266771

9780140266771

OCLC:

39903589