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).
Product details
Publisher : Grove Press; 20th Anniversary ed. edition (Jan. 31 1994)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 0802130208
ISBN-13 : 978-0802130204
Item weight : 1.05 kg
Dimensions : 13.72 x 3.05 x 20.83 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #35,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#32 in Absurdist Fiction
#107 in Dark Humour
#1,230 in Classic Literature (Books)
Customer Reviews: 4.3
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