A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.
Material type:
TextSeries: An Evergreen bookPublication details: New York : Grove Press, [1987], ©1980.Description: ix, 394 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0802130208
- 9780802130204
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Toole, John | Available | 33111009532314 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 ).
The year "1987" only appears in CIP data on title page verso.
Pulitzer Prize winning farce, set in New Orleans, telling about Ignatius J. Reilly and his various attempts at employment and one-man wars.