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A Confederacy of Dunces Anniversary Edition
Contributor(s): Toole, John Kennedy (Author), Percy, Walker (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0802130208     ISBN-13: 9780802130204
Publisher: Grove Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1994
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Annotation: This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 87000408
Lexile Measure: 800
Series: Evergreen Book
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.85 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region - South
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Geographic Orientation - Louisiana
- Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 10833
Reading Level: 5.5   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 20.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher 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 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).