Description: A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel Hardcover by John Kennedy Toole PRODUCT DESCRIPTION After four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Toole’s lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son’s suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in over two dozen languages.A Confederacy of Dunces features one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed “slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.” Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens.The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for Toole’s comic epic remains as intense today as it was at the time of its initial publication. © Copyright . All rights reserved.
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Restocking Fee: No
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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MPN: 9780807159606
Edition: 35
Book Title: Confederacy of Dunces : a Novel
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: LSU Press
Topic: Humorous / Black Humor, Classics, Family Life, General
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Features: New Edition
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
