John Kennedy Toole
Fiction T618c
After
more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A
Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the
manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his
mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide,
and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog
and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in
twenty-three languages.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens.
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for Toole's comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five
years ago.
(From publisher.)
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens.
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for Toole's comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five
years ago.
(From publisher.)
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces
continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by
many publishers during Toole’s lifetime, his mother successfully
published the book years after her son’s suicide, and it won the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece
has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces
celebrates Toole’s novel as well as one of the most memorable
protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker
Percy dubbed “slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don
Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.” Set in New Orleans
with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss
Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan
Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant
for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel
serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its
parade of eccentric denizens.
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as
successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for
Toole’s comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago.
- See more at: http://lsupress.org/books/detail/confederacy-of-dunces-35/#sthash.JHojsZsw.dpuf
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces
continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by
many publishers during Toole’s lifetime, his mother successfully
published the book years after her son’s suicide, and it won the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece
has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces
celebrates Toole’s novel as well as one of the most memorable
protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker
Percy dubbed “slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don
Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.” Set in New Orleans
with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss
Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan
Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant
for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel
serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its
parade of eccentric denizens.
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as
successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for
Toole’s comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago.
- See more at: http://lsupress.org/books/detail/confederacy-of-dunces-35/#sthash.JHojsZsw.dpuf
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces
continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by
many publishers during Toole’s lifetime, his mother successfully
published the book years after her son’s suicide, and it won the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece
has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces
celebrates Toole’s novel as well as one of the most memorable
protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker
Percy dubbed “slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don
Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.” Set in New Orleans
with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss
Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan
Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant
for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel
serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its
parade of eccentric denizens.
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as
successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for
Toole’s comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago.
- See more at: http://lsupress.org/books/detail/confederacy-of-dunces-35/#sthash.JHojsZsw.dpuf
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces
continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by
many publishers during Toole’s lifetime, his mother successfully
published the book years after her son’s suicide, and it won the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece
has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.
The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces
celebrates Toole’s novel as well as one of the most memorable
protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker
Percy dubbed “slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don
Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.” Set in New Orleans
with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss
Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan
Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant
for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel
serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its
parade of eccentric denizens.
The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as
successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for
Toole’s comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago.
- See more at: http://lsupress.org/books/detail/confederacy-of-dunces-35/#sthash.JHojsZsw(From publisher.)
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