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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.

Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber

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Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize

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“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . 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 . . . 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. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic.”—
The Baltimore Sun

“The dialogue is superbly mad. 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. . . . There is a touch of genius about Toole and what he has created.” —
Publishers Weekly

“A masterpiece of character comedy . . . brilliant, relentless, delicious, perhaps even classic.” —
Kirkus Reviews

“Astonishing, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, and peculiar, but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic.” —
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Ignatius J. Reilly is Bette Midler’s favorite hero of fiction (Vanity Fair, August 2008)


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Weidenfeld; 20th Anniversary ed. edition (January 1, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 405 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802130208
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802130204
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 800L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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After years of telling myself that I would read this book, I finally did and I feel ashamed that I put it off for so long. This book was certainly one of the most unique books I have ever read and what's interesting about it is that its story is certainly far from being something mind-bending. This book is about multiple characters that are nothing special and their random adventures in New Orleans. There is no grand plot that's going to hook you in, this is a book that rides on everyday encounters of random people. The story isn't meant to be some huge grand plot that is going to get unraveled by the end. All the story here is just what happens page by page. What keeps you invested is the curiosity of what will happen next. Sometimes its funny, sometimes its sad, sometimes its good, and other times its nothing but whatever it is, you'll be glad you read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars REALLY? NO, REILLY
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1.0 out of 5 stars Load of rubbish.
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL IS FANTASTICALLY FUNNY
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the few novels that are truly necessary, funny and indispensable. Shame the author never lived to see it published.
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