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A Confederacy of Dunces Anniversary Edition
Contributor(s): Toole, John Kennedy (Author)

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ISBN: 0807159611     ISBN-13: 9780807159613
Publisher: LSU Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor
- Fiction | Southern
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 800
Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (2.25 lbs) 632 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Louisiana
- Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Cultural Region - South
Features: Large Print
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 10833
Reading Level: 5.5   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 20.0
 
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Publisher Description:

After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in twenty-three languages.

The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one. Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens.

The genius of A Confederacy of Dunces is reaffirmed as successive generations embrace this extravagant satire. Adulation for Toole's comic epic remains as intense today as thirty-five years ago.


Contributor Bio(s): Toole, John Kennedy: - John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. After graduating from Tulane University, he received a master's degree from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College. Much of the first draft of A Confederacy of Dunces was written while he was in the army, stationed in Puerto Rico and teaching English to new recruits.
 
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