Hugh reviewed A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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I didn’t enjoy this book and I wouldn’t recommend it.
Paperback, 394 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2006 by Grove Press.
A Confederacy of Dunces
(1 review)
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "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." (back cover)
Subjects
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction