A Confederacy of Dunces

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Dec 1, 2007 - Fiction - 416 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, 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, Chicago Sun-Times).

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
28
Section 3
58
Section 4
82
Section 5
104
Section 6
129
Section 7
152
Section 8
184
Section 9
207
Section 10
235
Section 11
261
Section 12
303
Section 13
336
Section 14
378
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About the author (2007)

John Kennedy Toole, a native of New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and received a master's degree in English from Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College in New Orleans. His only other novel, The Neon Bible, is also published by Grove Press.

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