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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1987
Best price $5.28 new at AbeBooks · $1.89 used · audio $22.95
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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "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."
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3.8 of 5 · 88 ratings
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Book details
- Author
- John Kennedy Toole
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 405
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780802130204
- ISBN-10
- 0802130186
- Series
- An Evergreen book
- Categories
- Fiction
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