A Confederacy of Dunces Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Toole, John Kennedy (Author), Percy, Walker (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0802130208 ISBN-13: 9780802130204 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 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). |