brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic." - Kirkus Reviews "Astonishing, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar, but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic." - Booklist Ignatius J. There is a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created." - Publishers Weekly "A masterpiece of character comedy.
You simply sweep along, unbelievably entranced."- The Boston Globe "An astonishingly original and assured comic spree."- New York Magazine "As hilarious as it indisputably is, A Confederacy of Dunces is a serious and important work."- Los Angeles Herald Examiner "If a book's price is measured against the laughs it provokes, A Confederacy of Dunces is the bargain of the year." - Time "A brilliant and evocative novel." - San Francisco Chronicle "I found myself laughing out loud again and again as I read this ribald book." - Christian Science Monitor "Crazy magnificent once-in-a-blue-moon first novel. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic."- The Baltimore Sun "The dialogue is superbly mad. it will make you laugh out loud till your belly aches and your eyes water."- The New Republic "The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a stormy night. it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."- The New York Times Book Review "A corker, an epic comedy, a rumbling, roaring avalanche of a book."- The Washington Post "An astonishingly good novel, radiant with intelligence and artful high comedy."- Newsweek "One of the funniest books ever written. the novel astonishes with its inventiveness.
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). Reilly, is huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue."- The New York Times Book ReviewĪ Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece.
Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.īook Synopsis Winner of the Pulitzer Prize About the Book This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim.
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