A Confederacy of Dunces
Grove/Atlantic · Paperback · January 31, 1994
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in American comic literature
- Themes
- comic adventures, American South, eccentric characters
- Pacing
- Mixed
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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.
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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).
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in American comic literature
- Fans of character-driven stories set in New Orleans
Where it sits
| Satire | 51% |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction | 35% |
| The Classics | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Literary Fiction
- Dark Humor
- Authors
- John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic
- Published
- January 31, 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- comic adventures · American South · eccentric characters
- Reading lane
- The Classics