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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: 2,661
  • 416pp
  • Series: Evergreen Book Ser.
  • 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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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, A Confederacy of Dunces was not published until a decade after the death of the author. This wildly inventive and amusing novel features one of the most unforgettable characters in modern fiction: Ignatius Reilly. He's a mammoth misfit Medievalist hilariously at odds with the world of the twentieth century, and his adventures take him to 'way down, to New Orleans' lower depths.

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

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So Far awesome bookby Silence-Dogood

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November 13, 2008: This book is a very slow read it took me an hour to read twenty pages but it's very descriptive with the characters

I Also Recommend: The Pelican Brief.

Really Great Readby Anonymous

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October 07, 2008: I have to say, I didn't think I'd like this book, considering that I'm an 18 year old girl and it was my father who recommended it to me. But the book was absolutely enjoyable! Not only is it extremely funny, but the language is so descriptive that you really get a sense of what is going on. I loved the relationships I made with each character: Do I hate or love Ignatius? How do I feel about his mother? On and on. This was one of my favorite books about a complete ass and one that I'll always recommend to others who are looking for something non-traditional and totally awesome.


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