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 … (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
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I really, REALLY hated this book! It’s been a couple of years since I read it, but that’s what I remember about it.
Tour de force New Orleans saga of mid-1960s outrageous characters in New Orleans.
Toole left us way too soon, but not before he penned this hilarious ode to the character and characters of New Orleans.
One of the only books i will reread just for the joy of it
One of my all time favorites
Absolutely loved it