A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.
Material type: TextPublisher: 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 : Grove Press, distributed by Publishers Group West, c1980Description: ix, 394 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802130204 [paperback]; 0802130208 [paperback]Subject(s): Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Young men -- Fiction | New Orleans (La.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Humorous stories.Summary: Summary: An American comic masterpiece, john Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "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".Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Summary: An American comic masterpiece, john Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "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".
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