ISBN: 0802197620 9780802197627

Category: Fiction / Classics

Page count: 416

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize</b><p><p><b>“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><p><p><i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i> 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, <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i>).