A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) | John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) | John Kennedy Toole | Hilarious, dark, brilliant

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	A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) John Kennedy Toole Grove Weidenfeld, 1987 - 405 pages average customer review:based on 960 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." 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 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).

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HILARIOUS!

This is the funniest book I have ever read. I suspect that "The Simpsons"'s Comic Book Guy is based upon Ignatius.

Hilarious, dark, brilliant

One of the funniest books I've ever read. I was giggling the entire way through. The main character, Ignatius Riley, is one-of-a-kind and unforgettable. Captures 1960s New Orleans.

Not What I Remember

Having been smitten by this book in my twenties, I figured it was time to re-visit it in my forties. Big mistake. While still a ridiculous tragi-comedy, it must have been a slow year in 1981 for Pulitzer Prize contenders. Maybe I just know too many people with Ignatius Reilly tendencies now. Perhaps the book's editors couldn't bring themselves to tighten up the work of a dead author. Anyway I cut it, I found it tiresome on second reading (though I will admit to laughing out loud repeatedly).

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