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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2000, Hardcover, Annual) 
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2000, Hardcover, Annual)

 
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2000, Hardcover, Annual)

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0807126063
ISBN-13: 9780807126066
Product ID: EPID1667221
Description: Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitua...
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Synopsis
Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitual misunderstanding of its inhabitants (some of them no less eccentric than himself) and his often hypocritical efforts at scholarly success make him one of the most memorable comic characters of modern literature.

Details
Publication Date:2000-05-01
Edition Description:Annual; Subsequent

Size
Length:338 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:23.2 oz

Industry Reviews
"What a delight, what a roaring, rollicking, footstomping wonder this book is! I laughed until my sides ached, and then I laughed on....[Ignatious J. Reilly is] huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gragantua, 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."
Chicago Sun-Times - Henry Kisor

"A masterwork of comedy.... The novel astonishes with its inventiveness, it lives in the pay of its voices. 'A Confederacy of Dunces' is nothing less that a grand comic fugue."
Kisor

"The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic."
Kisor

"One of the funniest books ever written."
Kisor

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