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Author | John Kennedy Toole |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Publication date | December 1, 2007 |
Print length | 226 pages |
Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars / 7,234 ratings |
Price | $6.64 lower (%77 savings) than the regular price of $8.63 |
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).
https://www.amazon.com/Confederac...B008UX2UIO
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It is divisive. Some rate this book as top tier 5 star literature. Most think it's boring.
I adore this book so hard.
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And Comic Book Guy (Jeff Albertson) from the Simpsons is basically Ignatius J. Reilly.
I read the book in 1990 before really knowing the Simpsons and then after and I read every line of dialog as Comic Book Guy.
check out the audiobook version. A masterpiece.
RIP, John Kennedy Toole.