A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

Walker Percy (Foreword) and Barrett Whitener (Narrator)

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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 Review

A 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).

  • ISBN10 0786182466
  • ISBN13 9780786182466
  • Publish Date 1 December 1997 (first published 1 June 1980)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Blackstone Audiobooks
  • Format Audiobook (CD)
  • Pages 11
  • Language English