A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.
"'A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once.' So enters one of the most memorable characters in American fiction, Ignatius J. Reilly. John Kennedy Toole’s hero is one, '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). Ignatius J. Reilly is a flatulent frustrated scholar deeply learned in Medieval philosophy and American junk food, a brainy mammoth misfit imprisoned in a trashy world of Greyhound Buses and Doris Day movies. He is in violent revolt against the entire modern age. Ignatius’ peripatetic employment takes him from Levy Pants, where he leads a workers’ revolt, to the French Quarter, where he waddles behind a hot dog wagon that serves as his fortress."--publisher's website.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802130204 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0802130208 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0807126063
- ISBN: 0807106577
- Physical Description: ix, 394 pages ; 21 cm. vii, 338 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 1987.
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Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize winner, 1981. |
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Subject: | Pulitzer Prizes. Overweight persons > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. New Orleans (La.) > Fiction. Louisiana > Fiction. Young men > Fiction. |
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