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Name: A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Year: 1980
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Popularity: 9.6
Genres/categories: Humor, Classic, Award winners, Contemporary

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ISBN:
9780786182466
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.

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.
About the author:
John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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