A confederacy of dunces

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John Kennedy Toole: A confederacy of dunces (1982, Grove Press)

405 pages

English language

Published July 27, 1982 by Grove Press.

ISBN:
978-0-394-17969-8
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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "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."

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Subjects

  • Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
  • Young men -- Fiction.
  • New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.