It sold about 50,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 600,000 in paperback within three years of publication. He became entranced and decided that the novel was ''a major achievement, a huge comic-satiric-tragic one-of-a-kind rendering of life in New Orleans.'' After some more publishers rejected the book, Louisiana State University Press agreed to take a chance with a first printing of just 2,500 copies. Percy was a ''masterpiece.'' Percy agreed to read it. She was followed by a chauffeur carrying a manuscript that she told Mr.

The book's passage to success began in 1976 when John Kennedy Toole's mother Thelma, using a walker, hobbled into the office of the novelist Walker Percy at Loyola University. it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue' (The New York Times Book Review). Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed 'slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one. the novel astonishes with its inventiveness. The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Near fine in near fine first issue dust jacket. Signed by Walker Percy on the title page, who wrote the foreword and upon his insistence had it published. Hardcover Original Languages English Number of Pages 360 Author John Kennedy Toole Title A Confederacy of Dunces ISBN-13 9780807159606 Publication Date August, 2014 Assembled Product Dimensions (L x W x H) 9.29 x 6.26 x 1. Item Number: 89783īaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.įirst edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. A lighthearted yet impeccably researched look at the food of the 1960s, 'A Confederacy of Dunces' Cookbook reaffirms the singularity and timelessness of both New Orleans cuisine and Tooles comic tour de force. TOOLE, John Kennedy Foreword by Walker Percy. A Confederacy of Dunces is one of two novels written by John Kennedy Toole, the other being The Neon Bible, which he wrote at age 16.

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