TY - BOOK AU - Carroll,Kent AU - Blanco,Jodee TI - I, John Kennedy Toole SN - 9781643131931 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Pegasus Books KW - Toole, John Kennedy, KW - Publishers and publishing KW - United States KW - Fiction KW - Authors KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "A novel based on a true story"--Cover; Includes Book Club reading group guide N2 - The novel traces Toole's life in New Orleans through his adolescence, his stay at Columbia University in New York, his attempts to escape the burden of his demanding mother and his weak father, his retreat into a world of his own creation, and finally the invention of astonishing characters that came to living reality for both readers (and the author himself) in his prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces ER -