A Confederacy of Dunces

Title: A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy Toole
ISBN: 9780802130204
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
Published: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 20th Anniversary ed.
Number of Pages: 416
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: 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).