Following Toole's suicide, his mother sought out author Walker Percy and insisted that he read the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces. Neither book was published during Toole's lifetime. Adulation for Toole?s comic epic remains as intense today as it was at the time of its initial publication. A Confederacy of Dunces is one of two novels written by John Kennedy Toole, the other being The Neon Bible, which he wrote at age 16. The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. 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. 2016 by John Kennedy Toole (Author) 7,872 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 13.15 6 Used from 5.74 19 New from 11.50 Paperback 6.48 16 Used from 1.42 27 New from 3. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in over two dozen languages.Ī Confederacy of Dunces features one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover 6 Oct. 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. After four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers.

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