Item #2307201 A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2307201
ISBN: 0807106577

1981 6th printing in second state jacket (Chicago Sun-Times blurb on rear panel). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket price clipped, jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed internal tear on rear corner and 1/4 inch abrasion on spine.

vii, [5], 338 pp. 8vo. Foreword by Walker Percy. "A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published by LSU Press in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is now considered a canonical work of modern Southern literature. The title derives from the epigraph by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting). The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. Reilly, an educated but slothful 30-year-old man still living with his mother in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, due to an incident early in the book, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters."

Price: $125.00

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