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	Wikipedia: Larry Shields
		Lawrence J. "Larry" Shields (1893 - 1953) was an early jazz clarinetist.
		Lawrence James Shields was born on September 13 1893 in Uptown New Orleans on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived.
		In the 1930s Sheilds returned to Chicago, then joined the reformed Original Dixieland Jazz Band, then worked for a while at Nick's in New York, returned to play in New Orleans, then back to California.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/la/larry_shields.html (240 words)

	Tom Brown (trombonist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Chicago Gussie Mueller was hired by bandleader Bert Kelly, and his place was taken by young New Orleans clarinetist Larry Sheilds.
		This band seems to be the first band to be popularly referred to as playing "Jazz", or as it was spelled early on "Jass".
		The group again included Larry Shields; at the end of October Brown agreed to switch clarinetists with the Original Dixieland Jass Band bringing Alcide Nunez into his band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Brown_(trombonist) (824 words)

	Heart of the Matter
		For Larry the resolution comes in his 50th year, when he is host at a dinner party that brings together his two ex-wives, his girlfriend, his sister, clients and friends.
		At this improbable party, Larry understands that he is no longer lost and that the tortuous path has brought him to a reunion with his first wife, the mother of his son.
		Early in the novel, Larry muses that "language may not yet have evolved to the point where it represents the world fully." He might have added that music can take up where language leaves off, which is ultimately the justification for writing a musical and not just a play.
	theatre_chick.tripod.com /heart_of_the_matter.htm (661 words)

	Powell's Books - Larry's Party by Carol Shields
		Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness.
		Larry's Party gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997, that seamlessly flash backward and forward.
		Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties, and the lean, mean nineties, completing at last his quiet, stubborn search for self.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0140266771 (215 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| LARRY'S PARTY by Carol Shields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I chose to look at Larry between the ages of 27 and 47, since it is during this period, I think, that most of our life choices are made.
		In Larry's life, accident plays a major role, and he is the sort of person who allows this to happen.
		Larry Weller knows this too, when he wonders whether language has evolved to the point where it can be fully expressive.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/larrys_party-author.asp (1316 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Larry's Party by Carol Shields
		Though Larry's Party is not her best work (I prefer Unless and Mary Swann) it still exhibits many of her fine qualities, in particular using detail to reveal character.
		We drop in and out of Larry's life, almost catching up, but in reality feeling ourselves to be left one step behind.
		Like The Idea of Perfection, Larry's Party immerses us in the minutiae of daily life; brilliantly written episodes of doing the laundry; going to work; being married in the seventies; all of this and so much more.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/larrys_party.shtml (821 words)

	A&E -- books
		Larry, the namesake for Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields' enchanting new novel, Larry's Party, finds himself lost in the maze, not accidentally, but willfully -- ignoring the tour group he's with and taking deliberate wrong turns into this amazing labyrinth of green.
		Two years later Larry is working on his own hedge maze in his own yard in Winnipeg, to the mounting dismay of his wife, Dorrie.
		"Larry's Folks, 1980," for example, shows Larry at his thirtieth birthday party, but the real subject is his parents -- his mother Dot's inadvertent murder of her mother-in-law (food poisoning), their subsequent flight from England, his father Stu's beloved job in custom coach upholstery, and so on.
	www.mndaily.com /ae/Print/1998/02/storys/w_shield.html (803 words)

	Larry Shields Article, LarryShields Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lawrence James Shields was born in Uptown New Orleans on the same blockwhere jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived.
		He was oneof the early New Orleans musicians to go to Chicago, first heading north in thesummer of 1915 to join Bert Kelly 's band, then with TomBrown 's band before joining the OriginalDixieland Jass Band in November of 1916.
		In the 1930s Sheilds returned to Chicago, then joined the reformed Original DixielandJazz Band, then worked for a while at Nick's in New York, returned to play in New Orleans, then back to California.
	www.anoca.org /band/jazz/larry_shields.html (253 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| LARRY'S PARTY by Carol Shields
		The only extraordinary thing about Larry Weller is that he is the subject of Larry's Party, the new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that celebrates the twisting—and often chaotic—path of his life.
		While halfheartedly navigating his way through the lush green labyrinth, Larry realizes that he revels in taking wrong turns, that "getting lost, and then found, seemed the whole point." Mazes become not only Larry's passion and life's work, but also a mirror for Carol Shields's winding, looping narrative and the episodic structure of Larry's Party.
		With the exception of a few uneasy visits with Larry and Beth and reading Larry the newspaper while he was in a coma, Larry's son doesn't play a significant part in the novel.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/larrys_party.asp (973 words)

	Larry Shields - Biography - AOL Music
		A colorful and rambunctious clarinetist, Larry Shields infused the Original Dixieland Jazz Band with spirit and a bit of hilarity.
		His brother Harry Shields (1899-1971) was actually a stronger jazz player although less significant in jazz history, and another brother, Eddie Shields, was a pianist who briefly played with the ODJB in 1919 after Henry Ragas' death.
		Larry Shields started playing clarinet when he was 14 and he met and began working on an occasional basis with cornetist Nick LaRocca the following year.
	music.aol.com /artist/larry-shields/124660/biography (298 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Carol Shields
		Larry Weller is a passive, quiet Winnipeg florist who becomes a noted artisan--a maker of garden mazes.
		Larry's world is unmarred by violent death or poverty, untroubled by religion, undisturbed by grand passions.
		Ultimately, Larry is bigger than he seems, since his life encompasses 20 years of North American social history; the century ages with Larry.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.02.97/books-9740.html (797 words)

	Amazon.com: Larry's Party: Books: Carol Shields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Larry is proud of his job at Flowerfolks, even though he fell into floral design by accident, and if his relationship with his parents isn't perfect, it's not too bad, either.
		For example, the chapter Larry's Threads purports to tell about his clothing throughout his life, but through a bespoke suit he is mentally separated from his second wife until she actually divorces him.
		As Shields starts each new chapter of Larry's life, she explains, as though we do not already know it, who the main characters are, and where Larry has come from.
	www.amazon.com /Larrys-Party-Carol-Shields/dp/0140266771 (2504 words)

	Unfamiliar to Radio - unfamiliar musicians
		Larry was a drummer extraordinaire in a number of regional bands.
		Larry was also an advertising artist specializing in large scale art work.
		Larry is now a full time artist working with the Franklin Mint, Hadley House Publishing, Moriah Publishing, and Ducks Unlimited.
	home.comcast.net /~davidhumphrey2/Musicians.htm (952 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		Larry is the eponymous hero of Carol Shields’s new novel, an ordinary guy from a lower-middle-class background who rises during the course of the narrative from a clerk in a florist’s shop to a master maze-maker.
		Mazes serve as the governing symbol for Larry’s journey through life and the occupation which moves from personal obsession during his first honeymoon to apprenticing with a maze designer, and finally becoming a highly thought-of independent designer and builder.
		The novel seems to suggest that despite the twists and turns that a person’s life may take, there is a way out once the pattern is discovered.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/98_2/larrysparty.html (201 words)

	Harry Shields - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Shields was born in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, the younger brother of noted clarinetist Larry Shields.
		He played with the bands of Norman Brownlee, Sharkey Bonano, Tom Brown, Johnny Wiggs, and others.
		Johnny Wiggs commented that Harry Shields was the only clarinetist he'd heard who could always play the right note without fail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Shields (135 words)

	BookPage Interview
		What the author did for women, she does for men in "Larry's Party," a novel about Larry Weller, who in high school was "part of the jerk squad, president of nothing, member of no organization, unathletic, with barely average marks.
		"Larry's Party" is her eighth book and like "The Stone Diaries," it plays with form.
		The choices we make, the passions we possess, the ways we do and don't understand each other are the things that fascinate her.
	www.bookpage.com /9709bp/firstperson2.html (699 words)

	April Henry Mysteries \| Carol Shields Interview
		Did you choose Larry Weller's name—the name of the main character in Larry's Party—first or did you deliberately think about what you wanted his name to mean.
		Henry: I know that work is important to you, and it really shows in Larry's Party, where everyone has a job and some part of their job is described at some point.
		When Larry talks to his co-worker, Vivian, in the flower shop, there's an unending flow of conversation that takes place as they are working.
	www.aprilhenrymysteries.com /AHMCarolShields.htm (3564 words)

	David S. Shields - Music
		Like most white ragtime players at the beginning of the century, Larry and Harry were employed by Papa Jack Laine in his loosely organized “Reliance Band.” Laine’s band employed Creoles (light-skinned African-Americans), including Theogene Baquet and Dave Perkins, and the music reflected “what worked” on the street and in the dance halls of the city.
		Larry in 1915 moved to Chicago at the invitation of several New Orleans ex-pats to work in bands there.
		Larry Shields is usually regarded as the premier instrumentalist of the band, and several of the pieces in which he shone became staples of the jazz band and later Dixieland repertoire: Clarinet Marmalade, Tiger Rag, and Fidgety Feet.
	www.cas.sc.edu /engl/eal/davidsshields/personal/music.htm (2452 words)

	Larry Clark: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Larry Clark Larry Clark Larry Clark (born in 1943) is a US movie director and...Claude (Stephen Jasso) and Shawn (James Bullard); it contains some explicit sexual behavior...
		...again included Larry Sheilds; at the end of October Brown agreed to switch clarinetists with...
		Larry Clark (born in 1943) is a US movie director and photographer
	www.encyclopedian.com /la/Larry-Clark.html (232 words)

	South Carolina Man Arrested for Stabbing Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Officers went to the hospital and found Cathy Cynthia Harrison, 38 of 6166 Oakridge Road, Clover and Larry Wayne Shields, 53 of 4245 Dawnwood Drive, Gastonia being treated for stab wounds.
		At that time, Bernard Harrison is alleged to have taken a pocketknife out and stabbed Larry Shields in the back.
		He is charged with attempted murder on Larry Shields and with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflecting serious injury on his wife, Cathy Harrison.
	www.co.gaston.nc.us /gastonpd/PressReleases/pr2005-10-10.htm (301 words)

	CD Baby: SEARCH RESULTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Larry Coryell the jazz legend guests on 3 tracks, includes "Pascual Lives", covered by Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Buster Williams.
		This Larry's other album is An Endless Chain of Accidents.]These are deadly smart, beautiful songs by a truly gifted songwriter.
		With this album, Flatpicking Legend Larry Keel delivers a 14-song adventure exploding with the imagination, boldness and redefined expression that defines his New Mountain Music.
	cdbaby.com /found?allsearch=Larry+Shields&.../from/aaj (1325 words)

	Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth
		Carol Shields found inspiration in our city and province, and it is only fitting that we in turn be inspired by her incredible contribution as a writer and a friend.
		This introduced a maze-type access to the labyrinth, which we felt was in keeping with the way Carol intertwines mazes and labyrinths in Larry's Party.
		We are planning to have pathways of fine gravel and will be incorporating some of the hedges and flowers Larry used in his mazes like caragana, spirea, alpine currant, cotoneaster, hedge maple, boxwood, inkberry holly, dark holly, barberry and cornelia cherry.
	www.carolshieldslabyrinth.ca /memoriallab.htm (777 words)

	Larry's Party - Carol Shields - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 1998 • Tw decades in the life of Larry illustrates how men have changed, and how masculinity is defined in a post-feminist world.
		Larry's Party is a book that charts a normal middle class Canadian's life (Larry) over the course of 20 years, from 1977 to 1997.
		Larry is a normal man and the book picks up with the start of Larry's career as a florist.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/larrys-party-carol-shields (289 words)

	CD Baby: CRAIG SHIELDS AND LARRY CHANEY: Dois Gemeos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Craig Shields and Larry Chaney are veteran members of the Edwin McCain Band, a singer/songwriter rock outfit out of South Carolina.
		All of the members of the Edwin McCain Band contribute to the recording, as well as jazz pianist John Salem, and Larry's son Angel.
		Larry Chaney is one of the most talented guitar players I have heard!
	cdbaby.com /cd/shieldschaney (302 words)

	Human Shields \| Magazine \| The Observer
		Over the years, with books such as Small Ceremonies, The Stone Diaries, and Larry's Party, Shields's speciality has been the subtle ying and yang, the eternal 'ding-dong,' if you will, of the human condition: young and old; happy and sad; confused and determined; male and female.
		One of Shields's biggest regrets was that she never really had an in-depth conversation with her father, and, indeed, lack of communication within families is a recurring theme in her work, most notably in The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party and now Unless.
		However, the 'male narrator' of Larry's Party was, in part, a reaction to The Stone Diaries, which lent Shields rather more of a rad-fem profile than she felt able to deal with.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,706289,00.html (2346 words)

	Carol Shields: all these years later, still digging - Canadian writer Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Larry's Party examines in minute detail the life of Larry Weller, ordinary man, whose life proceeds almost in a series of coincidences.
		Through a sort of accident, Larry obtains a floral design diploma and works contentedly for almost twenty years in a Winnipeg flower shop.
		It also serves as a metaphor for Larry's journey towards the centre (the meaning) of his own life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_n3_v31/ai_20931298 (1033 words)

	Larry Jennings Magic Photos
		One of Larry’s most prized possessions was this plaque he received when he was the Guest Of Honor at the ninth annual
		Larry receiving an award from Windsor Magic Circle president, Paul Desjardins.
		Larry wearing the fez he used for The Lump Of Coal.
	www.larryjennings.com /jennings_magic_photos.htm (284 words)

	City Pages - Carol Shields: <I>Larry's Party</I> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		What makes this work stand out is that for the first time in her literary career, Shields has chosen to try on a man's skin for her primary character.
		Larry's existence is a relatively simple one, which makes stacking and restacking its components an easy task.
		Occasionally the churlishness of Larry's musings, e.g., on his penis--"It's his to wash and tug at and dust with talcum powder...
	www.citypages.com /databank/18/882/article2037.asp (687 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Larry's Party \| Carol Shields
		The only extraordinary thing about Larry Weller is that he is the subject of Larry's Party, the new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that celebrates the twisting
		Larry's relationships with women often seem to take precedence.
		Is this unrealistic, or is it an unfortunate consequence of modern divorce?
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/larrys_party.html (2353 words)

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