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A Confederacy of Dunces
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A Confederacy of Dunces Paperback - 1987

by Toole, John Kennedy; Percy, Walker

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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.

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Grove Weidenfeld. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. 0802130208 . 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 Inches; 405 pages .
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  • Title A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Author Toole, John Kennedy; Percy, Walker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Weidenfeld, New York
  • Date 1987
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 154775
  • ISBN 9780802130204 / 0802130208
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 800
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
    • Locality: New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Library of Congress subjects New Orleans (La.), Mothers and sons
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87000408
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole\'s hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is \"huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, 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).

First line

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 07/05/2013, Page 99

About the author

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.

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