A Confederacy of Dunces
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Kennedy Toole, John
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Percy, Walker
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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

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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Street Date:
12/01/2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780802197627
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John Kennedy Toole. (2007). A Confederacy of Dunces. Grove Atlantic.

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John Kennedy Toole. 2007. A Confederacy of Dunces. Grove Atlantic.

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John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces. Grove Atlantic, 2007.

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John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces. Grove Atlantic, 2007.

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

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