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A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Toole Confed
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Genre:
- Humorous fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, a 30-year-old medievalist who lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, and pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed. Considered by many a comic masterpiece that memorably evokes the city of New Orleans and whose robust protagonist is a modern-day Falstaff, Don Quixote, or Gargantua; other are not amused by a fat, flatulent, gluttonous, loud, lying, hypocritical, self-deceiving, self-centered blowhard who masturbates to memories of a dog.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize, 1981.
- ISBN:
- 0807106577
- 9780807106570
- OCLC:
- 5336849
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