Larry's Party

Informationen zum Autor Carol Shields Klappentext A major literary paperback for the summer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Stone Diaries". Following Larry, the main protagonist, from 1977 to 1997, and from the age of 27 to 47, as he goes in search of himself, the novel explores how masculinity is defined in the post-feminist world. "A brilliant reflection on what it may be like to be a man in the late twentieth century" "Independent". Zusammenfassung Winner of The Womenâ™s Prize for Fiction.

Autorentext

Carol Shields's novels include Unless; Larry's Party, winner of The Women's Prize; The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Republic of Love; Happenstance; and Mary Swann. Dressing Up for the Carnival*and *Various Miracles, collections of short stories, were later published as The Collected Stories. Brought up in Chicago, Shields lived in Canada from 1957 until her death in 2003.

Klappentext

A major literary paperback for the summer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Stone Diaries". Following Larry, the main protagonist, from 1977 to 1997, and from the age of 27 to 47, as he goes in search of himself, the novel explores how masculinity is defined in the post-feminist world. "A brilliant reflection on what it may be like to be a man in the late twentieth century" "Independent".

Zusammenfassung
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction.