A Confederacy of Dunces
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: 35th anniversary edition.
Description: vii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
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 space-age dark glasses.
Subjects:
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780807159606
More Formats
"Originally published 1980"--Title page verso.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1981.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1981.