A Confederacy of Dunces

Author: John Kennedy TooleBrand: Grove PressColor: MulticolorEdition: 20th Anniversary ed.Features: Paper back with comic picutre of the main charactor. 394 pagesBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 405Release Date: 01-12-1987Details: About the Author John Kennedy Toole, a native of New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and received a master's degree in English from Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College in New Orleans. His only other novel, The Neon Bible, is also published by Grove Press. Product Description 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 bu