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Pages: 405, Edition: 20th Anniversary ed., Paperback, Grove Weidenfeld

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A Confederacy of Dunces

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...

William Pratt, Bookseller This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.

83% A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback - Jan 1, 1987) Author: John Kennedy Toole ISBN-10: 0802130208 ISBN-13: 9780802130204 List price: $14.00 Number of Pages: 405 This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter," it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.

Description Author Bios John Kennedy Toole taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College.When Walker Percy penned these prophetic words in his foreword to the first edition of A Confederacy of Dunces, he could not have known just how wide Toole's "world of readers" would become. Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted...

Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian...

Toole, John Kennedy. CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION. 338 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Pale green cloth. Except for former owner’s embossed stamp to front free endpaper, a lovely, fresh copy. Dustjacket has light wear to head, heel and corners. Else, an especially nice copy of this elusive title, housed in a red morocco backed, silver-colored silk clam-shell box. Very good+/Very good. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply) (Insurance required...

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