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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (Foreword by)

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(Paperback - 1st Evergreen ed)

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  • Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Pub. Date: January 1994
  • ISBN-13: 9780802130204
  • Sales Rank: 2,466
  • 416pp
  • Edition Description: 1st Evergreen ed
  • Edition Number: 20
 
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Synopsis

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." 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).

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Published a decade after the death of the author, this wildly inventive comic masterpiece features one of the most unforgettable characters in modern fiction: Ignatius Reilly, a mammoth misfit Medievalist hilariously at odds with the 20th-century world.

Chicago Sun-Times - Henry Kisor

What a roaring, rollicking, foot stomping wonder this book is.

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Absolutely pointless.....by Anonymous

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June 06, 2009: Some of the internal dialogue is funny and his rants are amusing but the journey wasn't worth the effort....

Confederacy of Dunces not for Duncesby Strick

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June 01, 2009: The story of Ignatius Reilly's life, which is the portrayal of a man gifted intellectually through extensive schooling, but struggles to find his place in the world and especially, New Orleans. The writing style of this book is brilliant and it is a shame that it is the only book the author published. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how intellectual book knowledge without experience can be worthless but also beneficial in different ways.


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