A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.

I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delightA masterwork of comedy * New York Times *
A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from -- Anthony Burgess
Every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right * Rolling Stone *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780241951590
ISBN 10	0241951593
Titre	A Confederacy of Dunces
Auteur	John Kennedy Toole
Série	Penguin Essentials
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Penguin Books Ltd
Année de publication	2011-04-07
Nombre de pages	416
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