A Confederacy of Dunces - eBook

9780802197627
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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.-The New York Times Book ReviewA Confederacy of Dunces is an.

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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).