Name: A Confederacy of Dunces
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Author: Toole, John Kennedy
ISBN: 9780807159606

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Kennedy Toole

Publisher

LSU Press

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 15.9 x 3.1 cm

Weight

0.67 kg.

ISBN13

9780807159606

Edition No.

0035

Synopsis "A Confederacy of Dunces"

After four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in over two dozen languages. A Confederacy of Dunces features one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including 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; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens. The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for Toole's comic epic remains as intense today as it was at the time of its initial publication.

John Kennedy Toole

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John Kennedy Toole (Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, 17 de diciembre de 1937-Biloxi, Misisipi, 26 de marzo de 1969) fue un novelista estadounidense, autor de La conjura de los necios (publicada póstumamente en 1980), obra ganadora del Premio Pulitzer de ficción en 1981. El autor se suicidó en 1969 a los 31 años tras no conseguir publicar esta novela, que fue editada con enorme éxito once años después por una editorial universitaria, Louisiana State University Press, gracias a la insistencia de la madre del autor, Thelma Toole (1901-1984)

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