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A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.

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  • ISBN: 0802130208
  • ISBN: 9780802130204
  • Physical Description: 394 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 1980.

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Summary, etc.:
Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work.
Awards Note:
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize."
Subject: Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Young men > Fiction.
New Orleans (La.) > Fiction.

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  • 1 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Seymour Fiction Toole (Text) 31307023584875 Fiction Available -
West Leonard Fiction Toole (Text) 31307025264807 Fiction Checked out 07/24/2025

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A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
by Toole, John Kennedy; Percy, Walker (Foreword by)
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A Confederacy of Dunces


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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