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The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry's Party Carol 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,... read more
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“When Larry was a little kid his mother warned him about the dangers of public drinking fountains. “No one ever, ever puts their mouth right on the spout, “she said, “because they can pick up other people’s germs, and who knows what kind of disease you’ll get.” This was bad news for Larry. At that age he liked to stand on tiptoe and press his lips directly on the cool silvery water spout, rather than trying to catch the spray in his mouth as it looped unpredictably upward. Besides, his mother’s caution didn’t make sense, since if no one ever touched the spout, how could there be any germs? He recalls—he must have been six or seven at the time – that he presented this piece of logic to his mother, but she only shook her headful of squashed curls and sad sadly, wisely, “There will always be people in this world who don’t know any better.” He pictures these people – the people who didn’t know any better – as a race of clumsy unfortunates. Those people who mowed their lawns but failed to rake up the clippings, for instance. People who didn’t know any better stored cake flour and other staples in their original paper bags so that their cupboards swarmed with ants and beetles.”
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- Carol Shields (Author)
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