- General, Education, Fiction - General, Spanish: Adult Nonfiction
Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly.
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Prestige, contemplative, spare and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Carol Shields
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 358
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions, Tusquets, Świat Ksia̜żki
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- fin, Dutch, Portuguese, dan
- ISBN
- 9780965067621
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