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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 IgContinue
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spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Grove Press Paperback 416 pages September 1987 (reissue) The comedy of A Confederacy of Dunces is writ large in and between its many lines: a grand farce of overeducated white trash, corrupt law enforcement, ... (read full critics)
curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010
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Someone once said this book is like Marmite, either you love it or you hate it.
My experience with Ignatius and his story confirms what this wise person said: there is no way you can remain indifferent to this book. The (sad) matter is that many of the people who read it cannot appreciate it. ... (continue)Miss Piggott said on Aug 1, 2007 | Add your feedback
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A wonderful story centering around a sort Don Quixiote-esque Ignatius, a self-indulgent, flatulent sloth, who is gloriously out of touch with the world around him.
Jonathan Culverhouse. Author of Underkingdom: Disco Goblins vs The Machine, a fantasy novel for children.
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- English Books
- Paperback 416 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0802130208
- ISBN-13: 9780802130204
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Pub date: Jan 21, 1994
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780802130204 | Paperback | $15.00 | $10.80 | bn.com |
| $15.00 | $7.99 | The Book Depository | ||
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John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy Of Dunces
Ben Granger A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole See all books by John Kennedy Toole at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com As the ghosts of Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain will attest, nothing sells like the untimely suicide of a young talent. Dunces was w ... (read full critics)