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A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces By John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


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Summary

Ignatius J. Reilly is a grotesque, a gargantua, who lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake. Were it not for his maroon-haired mother, 30-year-old Ignatius would leave the city in peace. But mother decrees work, and thereby begins the tale of Ignatius against the world.

A Confederacy of Dunces Summary

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with

About John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved. His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, was eventually published as well.

Additional information

GOR001198850
9780140188103
014018810X
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1995-03-30
352
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1981 Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1981
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