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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).
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'My favourite
book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it -
for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly A monument to sloth,
rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious
suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New
Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary
folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores
them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble
crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a
nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job.
Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission
- and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it
with... This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's
savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed
Coralie-Bickford Smith. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and
intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand
comic fugue' The New York Times
John Kennedy Toole--who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his
best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces--wroteThe
Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The
manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal
battle among Toole's heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years
after it was written and twenty years after Toole's suicide at
thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel
was freed for publication.
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, filling his Big Chief tablets with invective, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must go to work.
Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy
of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by
countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years
after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print
worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John
Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print
edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most
memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom
Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat
Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New
Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose
essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life,
they leave the region and literature forever changed by their
presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian
assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso;
Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry;
Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the
introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu
composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized
type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both
first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and
longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.
Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy
of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by
countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years
after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print
worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John
Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print
edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most
memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom
Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat
Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New
Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose
essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life,
they leave the region and literature forever changed by their
presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian
assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso;
Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry;
Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the
introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu
composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized
type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both
first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and
longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.
The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole
wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen.
The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's
death. The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, a young man named
David, on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in
for the first time. What unspools is the tender and tragic
coming-of-age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around
David's unorthodox friendship with his great-aunt Mae - a former
stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative
townspeople - and the everyday toll of living in an environment of
religious fanaticism. From the opening lines of The Neon Bible,
David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into
his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole.
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