A Confederacy of Dunces

Synopsis

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 reviewa 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 kisor, chicago sun-times).