A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel

Author:   John Kennedy Toole ,  Walker Percy ,  Andrei Codrescu
Publisher:   Louisiana State University Press
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
ISBN:  

9780807130087


Pages:   640
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Format:   Hardback
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A Confederacy of Dunces: A Novel


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Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one. Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence - 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; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.

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Author:   John Kennedy Toole ,  Walker Percy ,  Andrei Codrescu
Publisher:   Louisiana State University Press
Imprint:   Louisiana State University Press
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.129kg
ISBN:  

9780807130087


ISBN 10:   0807130087
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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A masterwork of comedy. - New York Times Book Review; A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book. - Washington Post


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A native of New Orleans, John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) was educated at Tulane University and Columbia University, and taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College.

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