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A Confederacy of Dunces (Anniversary)

A Confederacy of Dunces (Anniversary)

Brief Description: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote...

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Grove Press

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Spiral Binding

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Brief Description:
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.

Marc Notes:
Published by arrangement with Louisiana State University Press--T.p. verso.;Originally published: Louisiana: LSU Press, 1980.;Set in New Orleans, the protagonist is nearly arrested for being a suspicious character and encounters many unfortunate events.;Pulitzer Prize, 1981.

Biographical Note:
John Kennedy Toole, a native of New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and received a master's degree in English from Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College in New Orleans. His only other novel, The Neon Bible, is also published by Grove Press.

Brief Description:
"Published by arrangement with Louisiana State University Press"--T.p. verso.

Brief Description:
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original character, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun Times)

Review Quotes:

Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize

A LeVar Burton x Fable Book Club Pick

"A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review

"A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book."-- The Washington Post

"An astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy."-- Newsweek

"One of the funniest books ever written . . . it will make you laugh out loud till your belly aches and your eyes water."-- The New Republic

"The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic."-- The Baltimore Sun

"The dialogue is superbly mad. You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced."-- The Boston Globe

"An astonishingly original and assured comic spree."-- New York Magazine

"As hilarious as it indisputably is, A Confederacy of Dunces is a serious and important work."-- Los Angeles Herald Examiner

"If a book's price is measured against the laughs it provokes, A Confederacy of Dunces is the bargain of the year." -- Time

"A brilliant and evocative novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this ribald book." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Crazy magnificent once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. . . . There is a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created." -- Publishers Weekly

"A masterpiece of character comedy . . . brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Astonishing, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar, but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic." -- Booklist

Ignatius J. Reilly is Bette Midler's favorite hero of fiction (Vanity Fair, August 2008)



Publisher Marketing:
This wildly inventive comic masterpiece exploded on the literary scene like a time bomb in 1980. The rest is publishing history. Critics and readers adored "A Confederacy of Dunces, " and the book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Now this wonderfully outrageous, hilariously funny novel is back in a new hardcover edition.

Review Citations:

  • Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 99 (EAN 9780802130204, Paperback)
  • Entertainment Weekly 05/19/2000 pg. 66 (EAN 9780807126066, Hardcover)
  • Library Journal 05/15/2000 pg. 130 (EAN 9780807126066, Hardcover)


Author: Toole, John Kennedy
Publisher: Grove Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 1994-01-21
BISAC: Fiction / Literary|Fiction / Classics|Fiction / Humorous / Dark Humor|Fiction / Absurdist
Subjects: Mothers and sons|Young men|New Orleans (La.)|Humorous stories
Weight: 0.86 lbs
ISBN: 9780802130204
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780802130204

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