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| Author: John Kennedy Toole | Foreword By: Walker Percy Walker Percy | Introduction: Andrei Codrescu Andrei Codrescu |
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Format: Hardcover Large Print
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-10: 0807130087
ISBN-13: 9780807130087
Buy.com Sku: 36413315
Publish Date: 4/23/2007
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(in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 1.75T
Pages:
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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.
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.
Author Bio
John Kennedy Toole
Toole's masterpiece "A Confederacy of Dunces" was published posthumously, after the author committed suicide in large part due to his frustration in getting his work published. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1981.
Chicago Sun-Times
"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." - Henry Kisor New York Times Book Review
"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." Baltimore Sun
"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." New Republic
"One of the funniest books ever written."
"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." - Henry Kisor New York Times Book Review
"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." Baltimore Sun
"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." New Republic
"One of the funniest books ever written."
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