A confederacy of dunces
(1980)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/TOOLE,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Grove Press, [1980]
[Berkeley, Calif.] : Publishers Group West
©1980
[Berkeley, Calif.] : Publishers Group West
©1980
EDITION
Grove Press edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 394 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802130204, 0802130208, 9780802130204, 0802130208
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First published by Louisiana State University Press
Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans -- selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life -- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1981